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...state, further, that Falk presented "the greatest American stars in the greatest plays for many, many years." This speaks very poorly indeed for your judgement and taste. For eleven years, Falk gave us seasons that each contained only one or two plays of stature amid a morass of mediocrity. As a matter of fact, Mr. Capp, it was only after you disassociated yourself from Falk that he offered us in 1957 a season0of nothing but good, plays: Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot...
...issue probably confuses the United States citizen more than that of this country's defenses. In particular our position vis a vis the Russians in missiles, although hopefully known to the Administration, still remains shrouded in conflicting data, misinformation and a morass of secrecy...
...Judged from the broad end of the picture tube, television had a bad year; its brightest moment shone like a candle in a morass of mediocre programs. But commercially, the industry seemed to be doing better than ever. Advertisers paid out a record $1.42 billion, a gross increase of 10% over 1957. By year's end the U.S. had a total of 512 operating TV stations (there were 495 at the end of 1957) catering to nearly 50 million TV receivers...
Taking Josie to bed and to wife is not a rational act on Dillon's part, but an admission of defeat; a retreat into the ghastly middle-class morass that he describes so frequently and with such emphatic relish; a form of suicide. Having effected this mock-death, he speaks his own epitaph, in which he convicts himself of total futility...
...Rome and Bonn to line up continental countries behind his plan to speak for Europe at the summit. There was even the suggestion that with his insistence on preparation "with care, reason and calm," and exclusion of public speechmaking, De Gaulle might lift the summit out of the U.N. morass in moiling Manhattan. He himself might, if he wished, wind up presiding over a Security Council meeting, since by rotation the chairmanship falls in August to France...