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...Britain is bothered by a rising impatience at the cost of maintaining the Commonwealth and, more important, at what the Daily Sketch called the "cheek" of members that presume to question Britain's policies. The nation that once ruled over a quarter of the globe is now desperately retrenching, and a great many Britons might agree with the Spectator: "What we must do is to act on the very threat that many of our partners have used against us too successfully in the past. We should withdraw our membership...
Jimmy Shine--A very slight sketch by Murray Schisgal made quite pleasant by Dustin Hoffman's performance in the title role and some songs by John Sebastian. At the BROOKS ATKINSON, W. 47th...
...actor. We get waving hands for nervousness; pained looks for sorrow, moody line readings for introspection. With no central character around, we must work too hard to find out what Horovitz is talking about. Finally we give up and watch the proceedings as we would a Sid Caesar sketch. While some of the laughs are there, the play...
Common to both these oil sketches is a genuineness of inspiration that has nothing to do with techniques. As Wittkower observes, the finished fresco had to be made solid and impressive with all its forms and symbols differentiated and understandable. Patrons expected such qualities. But in the preliminary sketch, the artist was working for the moment-and thus shares with the viewer the freshness and spontaneity of his initial vision...
...family, he went on scholarship to a spartan prep school designed to groom likely lads for their destined place in the Establishment. Like any dutiful upper-class English boy, he journeyed East to govern the lesser breeds as an officer in the Burmese police. The experience was decisive. His sketch Shooting an Elephant is a picture in microcosm of two imperial centuries of interracial injustice and violence. Unlike most people, he could take it but he could not dish it out. Back home on leave, he quit to become a writer. This was rougher duty than bashing natives...