Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wouldn't be hard to guess that Ritchard also directed, since he has blocked himself downstage and as the locus of attention all the time, even when he should not be front and center. But it's a neat job of direction. There is some claptrap in the script, trying to impute deeper meanings to a few of the characters, but it's not bothersome. Also a lot of the jazzy repartee reminds one of an old Montgomery-Lombard movie...
Thomas Weisbuch, like Sandy, contents himself in "The Last Letter to Monsieur Falbriard" with tracing a neat image, although the poem suffers from one or two technichal mistakes, confusions of grammar and image. Still, Weisbuch is capable of turning phrases as clean as "The grass that blazed/Each morning out by my window." He is the only undergraduate printed in this issue...
...Supreme Symbol. The pervasive odor of human manure, the characteristic fragrance of Japan a decade ago, has all but disappeared. Today's farmers buy chemical fertilizers instead. In rice-rich Ichijo. almost all farmhouses now have tiled kitchens, running water and-as a supreme mark of gentility-neat, outdoor privies with trim red pillars...
That leaves a neat opening for the much rumored Chevrolet "small car," expected out by late 1959. Last week newsmen pried out the first official word from Chevy General Manager Edward N. Cole about a Chevy small car. Chevy has bought tools and dies. "But," Cole stressed, "that does not mean that we will purchase one pound of productive material to run over those tools and dies." Chevy can scrap its plans as late as next summer, if the small-car market cools. Chevy's dropping of the Delray also gives plenty of room to other companies...
...Salaam. At 13, Abdie faced a perplexing problem. Living with his widowed mother in neat poverty in the New Medina (a Moslem quarter) of Casablanca, he was told "if you leave, you'll break your mother's heart." But if he stayed in Morocco, where only a fraction of the children get past elementary school, he might end up like his father who was an office messenger until he died. So Abdie found a solution: he persuaded his older brother to let one of his own children live with his mother while he is away...