Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each time I read an article similar to yours concerning Sue Ingersoll and Archbishop Byrne, I am less disturbed over the fact that I and thousands of others are "falling away" from the Catholic Church each year...
...gives one that satisfying feeling to read what Admiral Rickover said to Frol Kozlov at Shippingport [July 20]. I'm in favor of sending Ricky to sit in at conference with the Russkies. A hot wire like the admiral could put some spark into the doings...
...read with interest in the July 13 issue of TIME of the moves being made by the Thai government to stop the opium trade. During 1957-59 I lived with the Miao people. I have refrained from publishing my photographs of the opium growing because this is the sole cash crop of the people. But as it is to be stopped that reason no longer holds...
...gets a fine new production by the players of the Dublin Gate Theatre, with Michael MacLiammoir as Malvolio, "sick of self-love," posturing his priggish way with timeless vulgarity. London is also out with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half-hour slices while preserving their familiarly sea-wallowing cadences...
...GOLDEN TREASURY OF JOHN BETJEMAN (Spoken Arfs). In a series of dry and witty poems, read with impeccable comic pitch, the author (TIME, Feb. 2) recalls an England of "retired schoolmasters, retired colonels and handsome, healthy children'' with bodies "bursting into teens." In "amatory" mood, he sings his passion for a tennis partner...