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After almost four decades at the helm, Eugene Ormandy at 73 commands an orchestra that remains a patrician marvel, even though Ormandy's interpretations occasionally tend to be more like glossy prints than the real music...
...central conflict of the play is a plebeian foray into patrician territory. Crystal Allen (Marie Wallace), a perfume clerk, seduces and steals the husband of Mary Haines (Kim Hunter). Since Mary is a pretty decent woman compared with her feline friends, audience sympathy gravitates to her. Crystal is a steely predator who wants her share of the spoils, but as an arriviste, she cannot keep her social footing. She is caught out in another liaison, and Mary gets her husband back. In effect, the lower orders have been chastised for their presumption...
...newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Saigon rather resembles his predecessor-tall, spare, white-haired, with a patrician bearing that exudes authority. There the resemblance ends. While the retiring Ellsworth Bunker has a genial courtliness that enables him to get along with almost anyone, Graham Martin is aloof, tough and taciturn-so much so that he has alienated many people. Nonetheless, both friends and critics agree that Martin is well suited for the hard job ahead...
...fascinating and exhilarating . . . Everywhere, you see the strong foundations for a better future being boldly, laboriously, intelligently laid. Whether in agriculture or industry, you find eye-popping achievements." What hath God wrought? The words are those of none other than Columnist Joseph Alsop, talking about China. A patrician conservative who long described the Peking regime as though it were directly ruled by Satan, Alsop recently toured the old battlefields, where he had served with the Chinese Nationalists during World War II. He found himself hugely impressed by the industrial growth and disciplined spirit, and he took such copious notes...
...their days. With unobtrusive skill, he delineates the delicate social patterns that emerge from shared seats and invitations to do homework together. The hierarchical distinctions in his small city are minute. Many of them are noted by the loquacious Pulga. On first viewing the narrator's graceful patrician house, the boy cries, "Twenty rooms! I can imagine what it must cost to heat them." So realistic a thought has never occurred to the narrator, who lives in an insulated world of private emotional speculation. When his classmates finally challenge him in a classic episode of adolescent testing, he finds...