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...purist and patriot, Linguist Etiemble has declared war against Franglais, the pidgin French-English that has flooded la belle langue with U.S. neologisms. French newspapers speak of call-girls, cliff-dwellers, containment, fairways, missile-gaps, uppercuts. French sociologists analyze le melting-pot, out-groups, ego-involvement. French business roils with words like boom, le boss, fifty-fifty, soft-approach and supermarket...
...Costly Purist. As indictments against war go, this one is about as effective as any ever has been, an incidental reminder, too, that considerably more men of Britain died in World War I than in World War II. "It is quite likely," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan, "that when the annals of our theatre in the middle years of the 20th century come to be written, one name will lead all-that of Joan Littlewood. Others write plays, direct them, or act in them. Miss Littlewood alone 'makes theatre...
...small Theatre Royal in London's lower-class East End, she quit because the commercial theaters of the West End kept drawing away her actors and, worse, forcing her to transfer her productions into longrun, big-time houses in order to survive financially. She is a purist who would like to work for a purist audience rather than for people "whose only thought is whether their tiaras are on straight." She believes in short runs and unending experiment. It takes a lot of money to support a lady like that, and she coulc make millions working for big West...
Tomtoms, Teddies. Harold Minsky, 48, is the first to admit that his Follies at the International, a Broadway nightclub, is not classic burlesque. Its bumps have been shock-absorbed into harmless thank -you-ma'ams, and its grinds are exceeding fine. But only a purist could carp: it is a spectacularly busty pageant, flashily costumed, dizzyingly aswarm with near-nude (pasties here and here, a twinkly bikini there) show girls. If it owes a greater debt to the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas than to Minsky's old National Winter Garden theater on Houston Street, that...
...straight sour mash. When purist critics seek an example of everything that is corrupt about folk singing, they always pick on the hapless Kingstons. First off, the trio has made as much as $30,000 a week, and this is unforgivably crude. Next, they smooth down, harmonize, and slicken the lyrics, embellishing the whole with gimcrack corn. But, carping aside, the Kingstons are accomplished entertainers, and many of their critics, Johnny-come-latelies to purity, forget that they probably would never have heard of folk music if they had not been first attracted by a heel-stomping ditty rendered...