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...Friend Corliss Lament sent round his suggestions for summer reading in Maine-the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, etc. "I haven't told you about Groton and dear Dwight," young Anne Morrow writes to her sister from Smith College. "He was so sweet and dear and such fun." With a certain pleasant gush, these fragments evoke an age-the long-gone innocence of growing up in Englewood, N.J., in an atmosphere of affluent rectitude and Jamesian family tours of the Continent...
...youthful revelations, Mrs. Lindbergh does little to disturb the privacy that she and her husband have always insisted upon. Thus there is only one mild note from Anne to Charles. In the last letter of the book, the author matter of factly tells Corliss Lament: "Apparently I am going to marry Charles Lindbergh. He has vision and a sense of humor and extraordinarily nice eyes'. And that is enough...
...Take a Stand") seemed to me not far enough removed from the patriotic foot-stomping of a John Wayne television special for their own good. The show is not without its bland spots, though--particularly, the love duet "Patriotically Yours"--and there is one song, a lovely little lament for the trivia of fifties' childhood, that would look out out of place in all but the most winsome of entertainments...
Shoot the Piano Player, Francois Truffaut's two-toned lament for a thin-skinned ivory-tickler. With Smiles of a Summer Night, a period comedy of lost aspirations--one of Bergman's best. Through March 2. The 400 Blows, the first Truffaut, a sensitive study of a tough youth's progress. 2:30, 6:05, 9:40, with Rules of the Game, beginning March...
...soliloquy loses some of the force it might have had: "To see, to be able to see. You're just objects, you just move about. I can observe. You're lost in it. I won't be lost in it!" In Field's hands, the soliloquy becomes a childish lament, rather than a strong image of the intellectual detachment that Pinter despises...