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...Mexico to get in on one of the biggest oil rushes in U.S. history. The sellers: the Navajo Indians, who are fast learning to play what oilmen call "grunt and groan." As the bids for oil lands are announced, the tribesmen merely grunt, and as the prices soar higher, the oilmen groan...
...step or two downward in Shakespearean art. Yet since the Old Vic's current bill, unlike its earlier one, is all-Shakespearean,* this brilliant bit of early characterization, a sort of watercolorist's Hamlet, was not necessarily ill-chosen. It was a good taking-off point to soar from. And as proof of the Old Vic's feeling for tradition, its reaching for distinction, its high competence in production, Richard was rewarding enough. What reduced a good early work to the level of mere good workmanship was John Neville's unsatisfying Richard. His reach, quite possibly...
...element of dramatic construction is almost completely lacking. When O'Neill wants to get a character off stage for any reason, the character just leaves, with nothing said about why he should. For another, the language is often pedestrian, particularly in those places when it is meant to soar as poetry. Yet these shortcomings pale nearly into insignificance in the light of the playwright's grand intention, which is at once to write a genuine tragedy and also to explain how his tragic view of life grew out of the problems of his own tortured family...
Only a handful of insiders know precisely what happens between the first wisp of dawn, when 500 to 600 lorries loaded with farm produce roll into the Rome market, and the morning hours when the loads are distributed among the city's retailers. But the prices soar sometimes to triple those paid the wholesaler, thanks to the manipulations of the few insiders. They are the "captains" and the "queens" of the market, middlemen who tightly control prices but seldom keep the food in their own possession for more than half an hour. A wholesaler or retailer who dares...
...lead. In the party that thrives on its never-say-die struggles for power, Estes Kefauver withdrew in the name of "unity." While they approve of moderation, most good Democrats hunger for that old spirit-for the man who, in the convention's last moments, can soar through and above the electronic gadgets, the political gimmicks and the leaden harmony. They need a man who can revive the party's fighting spirit and send the delegates away from the convention believing that their party will win against all of Dr. Gallup's odds.* They have picked Harry...