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Your Feb. 8 "One Shrill Call," belittling the efforts and motives of political campaigning, is an old, popular, sadistic sport . . . Why should not politicians seek office by proclaiming they are needed for it? After all, they have to eat, too. Certainly no one belittles the butcher or the plumber for seeking their jobs. Why must the politicians be given such a roasting? It is fortunate indeed that there are enough good American men and women with courage enough to undergo the siege of insults thrown at their efforts, the cries of incompetence, the insinuations of graft, and the snickering...
...reason that other folks run for a commuters' train: to keep their jobs or win better ones. Politics is their business, and to its fortunes they commit their education, their economic well-being and their egos. Since they are loth to admit this, they profess to hear the shrill call of public invitation. By last week the whistle was singing in the ears of several political commuters. Examples...
...appears unsure of what Mrs. Bowles' characters are meant to express. At the heart of the play are two unnatural mother-daughter relationships. In one, an iron-willed mother has crushed her child's personality, in the other, a wispy woman vainly seeks the affection of her daughter, a shrill hysteric who detests her. Beyond this, however, the play cannot be reduced to any pattern. The plot is at least as diffuse as the conversation, and the principal roles range from the alarmingly neurotic to the quite mad. Take Gertrude Eastman-Cuevas (Miss Anderson). Though sometimes she has "shadows," which...
...subject matter was strictly from the Red handbook: miners, child laborers, peasants, and decadent rich folks sunning at Capri. But Guttuso managed to avoid the wooden lifelessness or shrill caricatures of his less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy oil of a man dying on a hospital bed. Although the central figure is realistically proletarian, Guttuso rose above the level of flat political posters with his geometric handling of pillow and sheets, skillfully done in shades of off-white against a violently contrasting red drapery...
Thus ended a saga-replete with danger, death, bravery and suffering-that had begun four weeks earlier; it had echoed in shrill and mysterious announcements over the Communist radio and in its press...