Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is nothing to recommend this play to the reader. It does not have even the grace of good writing. Mr. Wilson's blurb writers say that it is satirical and compare it with his "Hecate County" stories and the late George Orwell's "1984." It is lacking in the originality and horrifying interest of the latter; it doesn't have the graphic eroticism of the former. There is an uneasy amount of symbolism (to put across in dialogue), and the symbols and extended metaphors are brought up and then dismissed to make way for others. (This...
...anyone who felt the need for further samples, "Portraits, Inc." was prepared to recommend at least 50 other artists on its list. Calling itself the "Portrait Center of America," the gallery advertises "family portraits, official portraits, miniature portraits, portraits from photographs." It could truthfully add: "portraits of houses and pets, portrait statuettes and portraits of portraits." One artist in the gallery's 100-man stable specializes in copies of other artists' paintings. Explains Mrs. Lois Shaw, the gallery president: "The painter often doesn't do a good job of copying his own work...
Bloodletting, almost as old as surgery itself, has lately been out of favor. But in the current American Journal of Surgery, two Cleveland doctors recommend a bloodletting technique so radical and daring that an oldtime chirurgeon would have paled at the thought of it. Their method: deliberately drain away the patient's blood, in amounts up to 2½ or even 3 quarts, during certain serious types of surgery, then replace it as needed...
William Tregoe is good in the routine part of Harcourt, and Robert Fletcher likewise good as Horner, who has little to recommend himself as a character beyond the diabolic ingenuity of his scheme...
...mind the look of it now." And he is never so enmeshed in the making of history as to lose his sense of humor. Because of F.D.R.'s success in getting Moscow to underwrite religious freedom in the United Nations Pact, "I promised Mr. Roosevelt to recommend him for the position of Archbishop of Canterbury if he should lose the next Presidential election. I did not however make any official recommendation to the Cabinet or the Crown upon this point, and as he won the election in 1944 it did not arise...