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...measured the height of the barrier, found that it was only 37½ in. from the ground. His next step was to search the car rental agencies in West Berlin for a sports car small enough to slip under the beam. He finally decided on an Austin Healey Sprite, which, without its windshield, measured 35½ in. high. Meixner confided in another young Austrian, gave him an exact timetable of his plans and asked him to prevent any cars on the Western side from starting into the barrier area at the critical moment. At last, when his plans were complete...
...evening, WOR gets farther out. At 11:15 Jean Shepherd comes on, a brilliant and undisciplined night sprite. A sort of oral abstract expressionist, Shepherd begins to talk, gains speed, and skims along by free association. He remembers his Indiana boyhood with a command of imagery so precise that he can spin into the air everything from the smell of an old-fashioned icebox to the guilty excitement of an adolescent boy looking through a stack of Breezy Story Magazines down in a corner of the cellar. When he begins to run out of breath, jazz comes on softly behind...
...puppets, flesh of pliable plastic poured on strong steel frames, are marvelously alive but not necessarily human. They are, in fact, inspired refractions of the poet's entities, born of a fancy quite as wild as Will's. "Sweet Puck," for instance, Shakespeare's "knavish sprite," is imagined as a sort of naughty Ariel, a boy with the soul of a faun. "Jealous Oberon" is a grand abstraction of stag, noble and serious but indifferent, a thing of dells and vanishings. a silence of eyes, the spirit of the forest watching...
...lesson. Five of the eight English automakers selling in the U.S. will soon introduce new models that do not directly challenge Detroit. British Motor Corp., noting that 75% of its U.S. sales are sports cars, is coming out with two revised versions of its low-cost Austin-Healey Sprite ($1,868). It has also converted its tiny Austin 850 into the 90-m.p.h. Austin-Cooper mini-sports sedan boasting twin carburetors, disc brakes, and sure-footed front-wheel drive. Rootes is pushing its prestigious, $4,295 Humber (30% of its buyers are doctors, who like its luxurious interior and unpretentious...
...Britain before the Royal Ballet brought it to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Ondine was freely adapted by Ashton himself from a fairy tale by German Writer Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) describing the love of a water sprite for a mortal.* Although it bore all the marks of Ashton's familiarly gentle, classically oriented manner, it discarded the classical ballet conventions that appear in such Ashton successes as Cinderella and Sylvia. What he was trying to suggest, says Ashton, was "the ebb and flow of the sea: I aimed at an unbroken continuity...