Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard got a productive performance from sophomore Dover. The 6'2" New Yorker had 18 points and 10 rebounds. He made only five of 22 shots, however, and couldn't seem to direct a recognizable offensive attack...
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT should do for novelist Philip Roth what Levy's advertisements did for Jewish rye. Not that it has ever been necessary for one to be Jewish in order to like Roth. When compared to the brooding and melancholic that seems so irrepressible in much of Bellow and Malamud, Roth's treatment of the American Jew has always been relentlessly comic--even if sometimes bitterly so. Bellow's Jews--optimistic characters like Augie March included--seem to have been wandering ever since the Diaspora began. Meanwhile, Malamud has drifted back into Czarist Russia to find realities analogous...
Late in September, just before I left for Cambridge, we went to hear Duke Ellington, and she enjoyed that. As usual for a black performer in Daytona Beach, there were few whites in the city auditorium that night. But she didn't seem uneasy, she opened up to the music...
These gyrations seem not so much foolish as pathetic when viewed next to Bruno's twilight world. As he declines, the perception that life is a kind of dream through which most men move like drunken tram conductors struggles in his mind with his fading recollections of the flesh. Bruno recalls the anguish of his early loves, his failure with his son, and cannot keep the distant memory of these trumpery things, even now, from shredding his heart...
...theater, Fosse's fluid scene shifting seemed cinematic. On film, the process is reversed. Dance numbers are given coy subtitles, crowd scenes seem achingly stagy. Whenever he cannot provide a valid transition, Fosse makes the frame a mammoth still picture of his star -strictly for those interested in the north, south, east and west faces of Mt. MacLaine. Regardless of how attractive the faces are, that is not film making, it is map making...