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...scanty audience increased in its passivity, a small and amateur claque caused a good bit of rustling and unrest in the back of the hall, distracting the audience and perhaps insulting it by hoots of enthusiasm that the paying customers could not share. If he's any sort of professional (and the program claims he certainly is), Mr.Murray, the director, should take these urchins across his knee...
Should the MTA decide not to move from the Cambridge yards, it is believed that the University might still be interested in building on some sort of platform arrangement over the yards, which, although extremely expensive, might be preferable to expansion into some rather remote locale, such as beyond Dunster House...
...jacket and a smile all his own. "I thought you might be the telephone man; I'm expecting someone this morning to connect the phone. I understand you have some questions to ask; I wish you could have left them earlier; I'm not really so good at this sort of thing. But do come...
Kronenberger wouldn't go very far in defining the sort of comedy which most interests him ("We really haven't the time now.") but did mention that "It is generally not written for great masses of people. Broadway with its stress on hits or flops (and no middle ground!) leads to wisecracking or mechanical farces...
...created a fantasy in which the College of Cardinals chooses as Pope an expelled English novice (like himself) who reforms the church and the world, and dies a martyr. In The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Rolfe told the truth, little less fantastic, about his years as a sort of gondola bum in Venice. Nicholas Crabbe concerns Rolfe as a pitiful but unpitying literary hack in turn-of-the-century London -badgered, betrayed and swindled by a gallery of grotesque clowns called publishers and editors. The spite of this novel is now 50 years old, but time has been...