Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerated, the Communist conspiracy in the United States." It also included something that is almost certain to explode into bitter controversy: a list of twelve security cases (unnamed and listed only as Employee A, Employee B, etc.) taken from Government loyalty files. Nixon's speech included a thumbnail sketch of each employee, added: "Every one of them has been fired...
...brief sketch of Faulkner's background and way of life it is a competent job of reporting. As a critical analysis of his work it is incomplete and without depth...
This Property Is Condemned, first of the three works, poses a difficult problem of interpretation which Director Colgate Salsbury fails to solve. Williams probably intended to give this sketch an ethereal quality. Yet the conversation between two young misfits, as they walk along the tracks of a Mississippi railroad, lends itself to this treatment only at the risk of becoming overly romantic. Instead, the Workshop performs it with chatty overtones, emphasizing the juvenile character of the leads...
...Lady of Larkspur Lotion is a better example of Williams and receives a more polished performance. Illustrating the author's favorite theme of the decadent southern belle, the sketch tempers its seediness with fine touches of whimsy. Elinor Fuchs, as Mrs. Hardwick-Moore, plays an earlier outline of Streetcar's Blanche Dubois, handling both her southern accent and temperament without extravagance. Equally adept is Bob Golden, as The Writer. Patricia Leatham is perhaps too intense for a landlady, yet her performance does not mar the best production on the Workshop's program...
...puzzles, junior sports news, contests, do-it-yourself news, and comics, which has already reached a circulation of 1,300,000. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,077,835) followed with a tabloid Junior Express, last week sold more than 900,000 copies. The cheesecake-laden Daily Sketch inserted a Junior Sketch section in one of its regular editions, has upped its circulation more than 50,000. News-Chronicle admitted: "We are at the point of conception on a children's weekly, but hardly in labor...