Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Egon Hostovsky knows his Czechoslovakia. A veteran of the Czech diplomatic service and a friend of Jan Masaryk, he quit his post as attache in Oslo after the Red coup and now lives in the U.S. Missing is an unusually smooth blend of thriller and moral tale. And page after page, despite a plot that often seems unduly complex, Hostovsky gives a thoroughly convincing picture of a country drifting into Moscow's grip...
...stories, on subjects which seem to be fashionable these days--the decaying South and oppressed Africa--have considerable merit. The first, Told About One Spring, by Edward Cumming, is a first-person narrative which is well-paced and smooth throughout, with character and plot development fully integrated. The subject is a trite one--the love affair of a schoolboy and an older woman--and there are no original embellishments to distinguish this story from myriad other chronicles of the Modern South. But as an exercise in getting a series of messy situations and emotions down on paper with maximum clarity...
...says, and his attitude seems to have affected the freshman crew all for the best. The first eight, which opens against M.I.T. in the Basin tomorrow, is a relaxed, smooth-working outfit...
...Kentucky, the smooth-running Taft organization topped off a week of district victories by capturing all four delegates-at-large at the G.O.P. state convention. Final Kentucky score: Taft 19, Eisenhower...
...action." What Mr. Eliot has done is to transcribe his metaphysics, his ethics, and his grievances against modern society into an incident in sophisticated, modern life, with hardly a mention of God, salvation, after-life, and the rest. And he has done this in verse--but in verse so smooth, so free, and so outwardly simple that it seldom impinges upon the dramatic continuity of the play. These are both splendid theatrical achievements...