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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LABOR TRUCE has been signed by long-warring National Maritime Union and Seafarers' International Union, whose jurisdictional fights often halted U.S. ships. The two unions have allied to battle "flag of convenience" ships (TIME...
Somehow, all the blustering statistics do not add up to very much in the way of entertainment. What Wilcoxon and Quinn have produced is just a half-deflated imitation of the old man at his overblown best. The pace is often too vague or too slow, the color suave and unexciting, the costumes tasteful but somehow forgettable...
...fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...
...tell the life story of gentle Mrs. Bridge ("Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it"), he uses a mannered but often effective device of 117 very short chapters, each concerned with a single episode, often a single glancing thought or aspiration. The reader, in effect, leafs through a verbal photograph album, ranging from an eleven-line snapshot of Mrs. Bridge finding her small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that...
...fascinated with his subject that he now expects he may need four or more volumes before he can complete his monument to F.D.R. Like the first volume. The Crisis of the Old Order (TIME, March n, 1957). this one relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written. And while there is a firmer effort to be objective, the method of quoting both for and against a man or an issue frequently results in a Mexican standoff. And so many people are quoted in an effort to get "behind...