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...Patrice Lumumba's plane finally headed south on his return journey to Africa, he parted with Elyane Vermeirsch. bright with purple parasol, lipstick and nail polish, and she quietly headed back to a more prosaic life in Brussels. Those who know Madame Blouin best suspected it would not be so easy...
Short of Respectability. Not surprisingly, Sutton and his travel-writing press colleagues are the envy of newsmen on more prosaic beats. Every now and then, Denver Post Editor Palmer Hoyt pokes his head through the door of Travel Editor Bruce Hamby and inquires: "How does a guy get a job like this?" In the years since World War II, the travel editor has come to play an increasingly important press role. New York Times Travel Editor Paul J. C. Friedlander has a staff of five men and a secretary. Travel supplements proliferate, ranging from the Chicago Tribune, which prints...
Snow is attracting more and more attention in the U.S., and his latest novel-No. 8 in the projected cycle-is a June Book-of-the-Month. Even his fans admit that he is a pedestrian writer, a precise but prosaic documentarian. What makes Snow fascinating to many readers is his subject-the infighting that goes on along "the corridors of power," and the sort of cold, uncivil war that rages between what Snow labels the Two Cultures-traditional and scientific...
...Today is Mozart's birthday," Boris Goldovsky said Wednesday evening, "and we are dedicating this performance to him as a birthday present." The New England Opera Theater's Cosi is competent and buoyant enough in the singing, rather dry and prosaic in the orchestral playing. Mr. Goldovsky conducts almost every number too fast, but the fine voices and fluent technique of the singers (especially the men--John McCollum, Robert Paul and Ronald Holgate, and Wednesday's Fiordiligi, Marguerite Willauer) go at least a little ways toward rescuing the situation. The staging, also Mr. Goldovsky's, is brisk though not particularly...
...fact, the situation is not much improved by anything. The Poets' production (directed by Miss Manning; designed with some competence by John Beck) is generally below Harvard standards, eschewing realism without attaining anything in particular, certainly not anything witty or apposite or authoritative. The staging is prosaic, dull, and clumsy (if Miss Manning has an analyst, she might ask him about her strange compulsion to make her actors stand in the down left corner with their backs to the persons whom they are ostensibly addressing). The acting ranges from close-but-no-cigar to indescribably painful. Eustacia Grandin, Stephen Aaron...