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...concerned, and among the old, the summer sun has roasted into oblivion a few that the critics missed. Of the more durable musicals, there are Bye Bye Birdie, a rousing rock-'n'-roll call for an Elvis-type monster; Fiorello!, a more fun-than smoke-filled memoir of New York City's late 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 about a weakling whose old-maid sisters depend...
Indes v. Packers. Dinger is only 15 ("My mother didn't kiss me when I left to join the Army . . . All she said was 'Don't go and get knocked over by a tram or anything' "), and his memoir gives horribly credible, detailed illustration of Poet Randall Jarrell's line: "From my mother's sleep I fell into the State." Shrewd, wary, knowing, and precociously cynical, Dinger is yet troubled by Wordsworthian intimations of immortality. Dimly, he is aware that the presence of a soul is a handicap in his strife with life...
Fiorello! Director George Abbott keeps this affectionate, musical memoir as lively as the comic strips the Little Flower used to read over the radio. West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet in the asphalt jungle. In this bustling revival, the dances by Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins and the score by Leonard Bernstein still add up to the fanciest rumble seen around the sidewalks of New York...
...Memoir of the Bobotes, by Joyce Gary. Written when the future novelist was a young man and still three decades away from literary greatness, this unpretentious and unfinished collection of notes about a half-forgotten Balkan war is nevertheless rich with observed truth about arms...
...lives, and Gary set out for home. In his notes, he has almost nothing to say about the cause or cure of war; he neither reviles nor glories in it. Already the future novelist was simply recording human experience, usually with a painter's touch that gives the Memoir its most notable quality. Gary's own drawings illustrate and complement a text that owes as much to the eye as to the mind...