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...doesn't like his jobs. Often he goes to extremes unconsciously trying to avoid the "made-up" praise of critics who have long since become bored with the theatre Although he would deny it, his work in these instances seems to disagree simply for the sake of disagreeing, to smash idols on slender pretexts from motives of sheer perversity. He scorns Shirley Booth, for instance, because she is a "common-man" actress who makes love to the public by portraying the common level. For Bentley, the relationship between Miss Booth and her audience is purely erotic...
...good standing of a Communist braintrust known as the World Peace Council. Last week Turncoat Sartre cried havoc because Dirty Hands was presented at Vienna's Volkstheater. He threatened to sue to keep the curtain from rising, but the play opened as scheduled, naturally proved to be a smash hit, was climaxed by a 30-minute ovation from the audience, which gave the cast 25 curtain calls. Squirming as if he had no exit, Sartre moaned: "I don't disavow Dirty Hands . . . but I don't want to see it produced in one of the neurological centers...
British Novelist Graham (The Third Man) Greene, who is something of an internationalist Carry Nation out to smash the U.S.'s McCarran Act, stepped off a plane at San Juan airport, Puerto Rico and snapped a sharp yes when immigration officials asked the routine "have-you-ever-been-a-Communist?" question. Greene, who was en route to London from a vacation in Haiti, was politely detained overnight, next morning took off for Havana for a few days' nightclubbing and the chance to bemuse reporters with his story. The heart of the matter, explained famed Roman Catholic Convert Greene...
...have sailed under false colors for so long, our problems are miraculously solved. We may now carry our heads high again, with nothing to hide. But, alas, for those of us who were so proud. Perhaps the, bra companies will come to our rescue with a "Smash-it" or a "Cave...
...both Britain and the U.S. have been deluged with books that "describe, with a gusto missing from the rest of their narratives, scenes that descend to the depths of atrocity. Moreover, they ask not only for our interest, but for our admiration. It is not just the villains who smash noses, gouge eyes, and beat people to a jelly; the heroes do it too, and indeed are handier at it than the villains...