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...Since a splendid gimmick is about all there is to The Walter Syndrome, there is little to say about the book beyond the fact that the ploy is notably audacious and that it works. The time is the late Depression era. The place, of all places, is the classified-ad department of a New York daily, and the prime instrument for working evil is the telephone. Neely's notion of atmosphere is to cram his pages with nostalgic nouns from the '30s-the Manhattan Room, Vincent Lopez, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Milliard. However, the Jack the Ripper-style...
...play's prime standing as a Kultcha classic, Ritt hasn't stooped to the traditional homage Hollywood usually pays to Broadway hit-dom. The Great White Hope is severely divided, but many of the tensions the black actors manage to convey are true. At certain points-particularly when the splendid Moses Gunn, as an anachronistic black nationalist street preacher, accosts James Earl Jones after his character's return from a championship bout-the cast suggests the immense possibilities the story of the first Negro heavyweight champion could have held for artists who understood the period, its people, and the implications...
...bronze-in this case, Henry Moore's Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop. Finn's fine photographs explore masses, probe patinas, present perspectives, titillate with textures. Poet Hall's words are blessedly brief. Their joint aim is to educate the eye. A splendid book for Moore fanciers. For others, the year's richest example of cultural overkill...
...Deliberately or otherwise, your splendid piece on my book [Nov. 16] reversed the title. I do not blame you, though. It took much hesitation to decide on Coexistence & Commerce rather than Commerce & Coexistence. My foreign publishers wisely skirted the issue. After toying with The Tender Sword, they settled on Weapons of Peace, which (don't you agree?) by any other name are just as tender...
...arrive at a consistent view of his world. As early as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, his feeling toward the technological society was widely ambivalent. He admired technology; he despised it. The U.S. was corrupted; it was the hope of the world. Man was a splendid fellow; man was changelessly evil. His own life reflected these inconsistencies. He delivered a fine speech lampooning accident insurance at a time when he himself was a director of an accident insurance company. He wrote the thunderations that Geismar admires, then gave instructions that they should not be published...