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Seen through the eyes of Gussie Millinder, a humorless but perceptive old maid, the family's degeneration is pathetic. Mean little descriptions of poor Newport hostesses whose husbands had to make do with fortunes of only $1,000,000 give the neat, well-mannered prose an occasional touch of irony. But young debutantes who sugar their very small talk with references to Louis XI (not XIII or XIV), and butler who tell dinner guests when their hostes wants them to switch conversational part ners, all lend a persistent air of unreality almost as if the author were intent...
Robards Jr. against three women two old maid sisters and a wife-who need him to need them; The Tenth Man, Alchemist Paddy Chayefsky's murky but potent mixture of out-of-date mysticism and up-to-date neurosis; The Miracle Worker, a tour de force of acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft as the young Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan; and The Best Man, Gore Vidal's cutting caricature of coldblooded politics...
...effective ways that are overlooked in times of plenty. NBC Chairman Robert Sarnoff now has two secretaries instead of three. American Airlines, which had more than a 50% decline in first-half profits, has decided to re-use plastic dishes from its food trays instead of discarding them. Minute Maid Corp. tallies the length of all long-distance phone calls, gives a "Joe Blow" award to the longest-winded employee. Savings per year...
...Maids & Galley Slaves. Belfast-born Canadian Novelist Brian Moore, 38, knows Ginger well; his literary career has been devoted to lives that would be sorry farces if they were not sadder truths. Moore's Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne worried an old maid's wasted years in cruel whispers. In The Feast of Lupercal, he basted a 37-year-old virgin schoolmaster who knew less of sex than his students. While its plot is more forced than forceful, The Luck of Ginger Coffey dyes its boy-man hero in the rich Moore pigments of humor, poignance and irony...
...memoir of New York City's late embattled mayor; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in a brilliantly choreographed Manhattan rumble. Among the dramatic works, the midsummer's night cream includes Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's corrosive piece concerning a weakling whose old-maid sisters depend on his dependence; The Tenth Man, ancient Jewish exorcism strikingly put to work on modern neurosis; and The Miracle Worker, featuring extraordinary performances by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft as the young Helen Keller and her teacher...