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...mainly in ghetto areas. Both priests deeply distrust private property because of the greed that it provokes in humanity. Phil, the polemicist, is gregarious and outgoing-a tall, brawny, bear-hugging Burt Lancaster of a man, given to warm laughter amid healthy belts of rye. Dan, the poet, is slighter-a cross between Charles Aznavour and Steve McQueen. In conversation, his eyes often seem to rest on some invisible distant mountain. Yet he, too, exudes wide good humor underlying the melancholy. To the fledgling activist, he recommends "the merciful final words: Enjoy. Enjoy...
Task forces and subcommittees abound, but their output so far has been slight. Final proposals by the President to Congress have been slighter still. As yet, there is no Administration policy on such high-priority issues as social security, poverty, welfare, transportation and the war against crime...
This massive family chronicle begins impressively and then dissipates itself in authorish rhetoric and an obsessively circular kind of storytelling. In the end, the balance left to praise is slighter by the measure of Novelist Calisher's fondness for the supersubtle...
Last week, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first U.S. tour with the American premieres of two works that admirably displayed its body-English mode of dance. Jazz Calendar, the slighter piece, is a light-hearted series of variations on the old nursery rhyme that begins, "Monday's child is fair of face." Wednesday's child, who is "full of woe," is portrayed by Svetlana Beriosova as a studiously mournful, black-clad wraith, pursued by a clutching quartet of mottled, mock-serious snakes. Friday's children love...
...forehead and right palm and could pass for 40, Ray's age. John Willard, 42, the name used by the man who rented the room in Memphis 13 paces away from the bathroom where King's assassin hid, is an insurance adjuster who is shorter and slighter than Ray's 5-ft. 9-in., 175-lb. frame, but looks not unlike him. Paul Bridgman, an educator, and Ramon George Sneyd, a policeman, whose names Ray used after he arrived in Toronto, are both 35 and have Ray's build. Police are still puzzling over how they...