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...diagnoses. Now what person fills the bill--theologian, philosopher, musician, physician, and compassionate servant of the less fortunate for half a century? Albert Schweitzer. If you think this far-fetched, I call your attention to the fact that Godot's boy messenger, on both his entrances, addresses Didi as "Mister Albert." This play has inexhaustible riches for all who will take the trouble. It is not truly enigmatic; it is simply unorthodox...
...offered Mikoyan) "but we don't want to profit by it. If you withdraw your troops from Germany, France and Britain -I'm speaking of American troops-we will not stay one day in Poland. Hungary and Rumania." His voice was scornful as he added: "But we, Mister Capitalists, we are beginning to understand your methods...
...this time, the diplomats-who, in turn, have come to understand Mister Khrushchev's methods-had already left the room...
...theater should be mere rewriting-that playwrights should turn to novels for their plays, as though the best way to make a chair were to cut down a sofa. Alan Paton's dramatized African novel, like so many other adaptations, including Joyce Gary's dramatized African novel, Mister Johnson, loses the swell and amplitude of fiction without achieving the drive and intensity of drama. It is in some ways too obvious, in others too obscure; its scenes are chop-pily hitched on to one another like so many train coaches-and with the engine unfortunately at the wrong...
...spawn the bards of basic training camps, staging areas, supply depots and paper-shuffling rear echelons. These latter-day laureates all agree that war gets funnier and funnier in direct proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer selection, this novel about a Navy public-relations crew stationed in the Pacific tickled Hollywood...