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...Bridge," by Evan S. Connell, is satire on mid-western, upper-middle class morality. It is not able for a placidity of viewpoint unlike much social satire. The other stories are marred more or less, as I have said, by an obvious effort to be murky or ultra-lucid. The "Art of Fiction" interview, tenth of a uniformly excellent series, is with James Thurber...
...Omnibus got off to an interesting start with Author William Saroyan's recollection of his California boyhood and was memorable for the sharply played vignettes of adolescence by Actors Sal Mineo and Pat De Simone. Then Composer Leonard Bernstein took over for a splendidly lucid primer on the world of jazz. Pointing out that blues are based on a rhymed couplet in iambic pentameter with the first line repeated, Bernstein developed a lowdown blues song from Shakespeare.* Bernstein looks like a young Burgess Meredith, speaks with extraordinary clarity and intelligence and is always able to demonstrate precisely what...
...plot itself is lucid. In late nineteenth century Paris a general, his wife, the Countess, and her admirer affably intrigue. A pair of diamond earrings, which precipitates every crisis among them, exchanges hands constantly. Each gentleman strives to impress the Countess, either by giving them to her or by taking them away, until the earrings themselves come to symbolize her love...
Your Sept. 5 treatment of the Fifth Amendment issue was a remarkably lucid, informative and objective summary of both sides of the controversy. Lawyer [C. Dickerman] Williams' cogent arguments inject a welcome measure of common sense into an issue so muddled by smears, emotion and innuendo. Why not make such debates a regular feature...
...commentator. A university professor until World War II, he joined General Charles de Gaulle in London, edited the Free French newspaper La France Libre. Since 1947 he has been chief columnist for the conservative Le Figaro, has proved himself a sturdy friend of the U.S., a lucid opponent of Marxism, a devastating critic of neutralism. In this article, written for TIME, he states the French case in North Africa...