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...must be obvious that this is an uneven play. Director David Lelyveld has exploited the excitement of his situation to the utmost but too often he succumbs to touches of purest melodrama. The basic cause of unevenness, though, is Gardner himself, who is by turns eloquent, windy, perceptive, funny, pathetic, cynical, and utopian...
...standards of excellence of modern English light fiction--comfortable clarity and generous wit--are, like Shakespeare's standards, centered in that purest of human pleasures, a garden, this one the size of shire, and tended until her recent death by the softly malicious and completely delightful Angela Thirkell. Those writers intelligent enough to acknowledge Mrs. Thirkell's leadership (like Nevil Shute and 'Miss Read') have always enjoyed the quiet success their sound judgment deserved; those rebellious Angries (like John Braine, John Wain and that lot) who have ignored her example have inevitably become eminently unreadable. Their prose becomes barren, sluggish...
Tartars & Indians. The pearl of this collection. The Enchanted Wanderer, is the skaz at its purest, with a framework of auditors who listen to the story and occasionally interrupt with provocative questions. It is a picaresque short novel, narrated by its hero, who was born a serf, trained as an outrider, and who became in turn a thief, a Tartar captive and husband of Tartar wives, a soldier, a horse dealer, a civil servant, an actor and a novice in a monastery-always resigned to his fate, yet full of curiosity and humor, always interested in the experience of being...
Predominantly a European phenomenon, the Gymnaestrada is amateur athletics at its purest. All 10,000 participants paid their own way to Stuttgart, and their own expenses while there. No one was judged, and everyone was eligible: the age of the participants ranged from 7 to 74. "It's the cheapest form of exercise I can get," explained a German housewife of 38. "I need only a pair of gym shoes and shorts to work out. It's a family sport. My husband and children and I all enjoy it together. Now we like it so much we follow...
Lara was "the purest thing in the world," and "nothing equaled her in spiritual beauty." She was like Russia itself: "martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored." In these words, Boris Pasternak described the beautiful heroine of his great novel, Doctor Zhivago, known to readers the world over-except in Russia, where Zhivago is banned...