Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smooth & Scatty. Infractions of etiquette upset her. Vulgarity makes her eyes flash. "I am not an intolerant woman, but I abominate stupidity," she says. Her withering stare could reduce a rabid dog to foaming jelly. She smiles lopsidedly at absurd questions. She gives lopsided answers too. Is she eccentric? "I hope I'm an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a superindividual. Perhaps an eccentric is just off-center-ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal...
...production's theatrical weakness, not its financial failure, is the real shame. Anne Bancroft contributes a valiant performance, and Eric Bentley's revised translation is more smooth and idiomatic than his previous efforts (while avoiding the Runyanesque inaccuracy of Blitzstein's Threepenny Opera). The least known of Brecht's musical collaborators, Paul Dessau, successfully broadens the tradition of Weill, Hindemith and Eisler. Unfortunately, the modified orchestra blares his tunes over Miss Bancroft's not-brassy-enough voice...
...Brecht, a show in which they--as one critic put it--try to make a liberal out of Brecht. A record on the Riverside label, Bentley on Brecht, shows the playwright and his critical champion to good advantage. Mr. Bentley (once a concert pianist) does not have a smooth voice but it could be argued that Brecht didn't, either...
...only items of strictly Jewish interest in this Mosaic are a smooth and winning translation by Neal Kozodoy of a midrash called "The Death of Moses" and an adaptation of a lecture presented before the Harvard-Radcliffe Forum by Jacob Katz. Professor Katz, now visiting from the Hebrew University, is a world-famous expert on Judaism in the Nineteenth Century; hence it is a fine thing to publish him even though his command of English prose is not all it might be. His article, "Secular Interpretation of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century," will not electrify his professional colleagues, since...
PHILADELPHIA, May 11--West Germany's Ratzeburg rowing club, racing as usual with its high but incredibly smooth broke, swept over the Schuylkill's 2000-meter course in 5:53.8 this afternoon, beating Penn by about a length and Harvard by a length and a half. By finishing second, Penn became the first college crew to defeat Harvard this year...