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...comments on the HRO concert must start with a paean to the program. Professional orchestras seldom pass the two hour mark these days, leaving the listener with a vaguely unsatisfied feeling. And at least one of the selections on the program is usually a chestnut that every member of the orchestra could play standing on his head. Both for the length and content the HRO program was a delight...
Though Marriage occasionally creaks like a piece of stage machinery, Director De Sica cunningly transforms its back street romance into an earthy, exuberant paean to virtue. Mastroianni's vain, middle-aged gallan-checking the coxcomb at every mirror, sneaking into a little dance of smug self-satisfaction -smacks of the satyr that most men yearn to be when the moon is right. And Sophia has become far too perceptive an actress to squander her talents as a mere prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold. Now wild, now touchingly woebegone, now coolly indomitable, she is Everywoman, Italian style...
...Phyllis McGinley's paean to the American housewife is absurd [Oct. 9]. Housewifery is not a profession. Does one need an education to do a good job making beds? And is it any more "noble" to bake a cake than to teach a child to read? Not all members of the profession have the intellectual sanctuary of a typewriter and a poetic mind to retire to when the emotional strain of being mentally unemployed becomes too much...
JOHNSON'S WAX is polishing its image with a 20-minute, exquisitely filmed paean to awareness called To Be Alive! that miraculously never once mentions the sponsor or his product...
Pleased by public response, Curtis President Matthew J. Culligan called Ogilvy's ad "one of the great media ads of the decade." Others obviously agreed. Next day, by startling coincidence, Look Magazine ran a full-page paean to its editor, Dan Mich. Adman Ogilvy could harvest the rich rewards of having concealed from Curtis, to the very end, his true motives. "I belong," he said last week, revealing his purpose at last, "to the society for the enthronement of editors and the subordination of those space peddlers who get to be publishers. I've been nauseated...