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...that Shakespeare needed rewriting. Taking its cue from Ben Jonson ("Shakespeare wanted art"), the Restoration and the Age of Reason argued that the Bard was a barbaric child of Nature whose war bled woodnotes wild violated the Aristotelian unities of time, place and action. His plots were a confusing mishmash of the tragic and comic. He was vulgar. Samuel Pepys confided to his diary that Hamlet "disgusts this refined age." Dryden called him "divine Shakespeare," but added smugly: "I have refined his language, which before was obsolete." Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment...
Trick Count. The U.S. delegation of 630 was a mishmash of the devout (including Paul Robeson Jr.), the trusting, and the curious. There was also a cadre of professionally coached antiCommunists, including a young American scientist, J. A. Ransahoff, who at a party-line seminar on the atom stole the Red thunder with a facts-and-figures presentation of the U.S. program for the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
Along with the audience, the sounds emitted by the nation's 3,779 AM and FM radio stations have changed too. In place of the nostalgic big names and expensive-talent dramatic shows, most U.S. stations blare forth a starless mishmash of hip music, skimmed news and honey-voiced disk jockeys...
...least attempt to shrug off blame for past letdowns, spoke candidly but without hand-wringing about the present, mapped a hard line for future progress. This week he sent off a letter to the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Bulganin, thus stepped into a world scene that had become a mishmash of creeping neutralism and phony Communist peace propaganda, and managed both to seize the peace initiative and restore the perspective of the cold...
...trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst, it is a mishmash of joyless fornication, head-splitting hangovers, and a neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word...