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New plays, like oysters, are in season, but there are some still amazingly fresh items from last year's bill of fare with which to contend: Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's skillful exploration of the Sons and Lovers theme, stars Jason Robards Jr.; The Tenth Man...
In his off-the-cuff substitutions for formal speeches, Kennedy sometimes raced too briskly to the point; often he was guilty of oversimplification. But in happier moments (notably in press conferences and informal question-and-answer sessions), he impressed the experts with his detailed knowledge, eloquence and deft uptake. As...
Best Reading The Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The grief of a 59-year-old plumber over the sudden death of his wife is the unlikely subject of this remarkably skillful first novel. With telling economy, Author Wallant suggests the climate of a marriage, the texture of sorrow without...
Now it is true that the synchronization of lips in dubbed films varies widely in quality. But, despite Crowther, even the most skillful jobs are pretty readily detectable as such. And few things so easily destroy illusion in cinema as faulty synchronization of the soundtrack. Besides, languages differ vastly in...
Presence Established. Inheriting the job of Secretary-General from Norway's Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold has become perhaps the world's most skillful diplomat. When East and West were glowering in immobilized anger, Hammarskjold quietly slipped into Peking in 1955 and negotiated the release of 15 captive U.S. flyers...