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Sean O'Casey's Drums Under the Window is a lilting work that makes golden use of the English language. With this exception, however, the downtown offerings generally range from pretentious to overtly sheckel-minded. An example of a play with static ideas and superficial newness is Genet's The Balcony, one of off-Broadway's biggest hits. Despite its pretensions of originality, it bogs down in a miasma of unreality and philosophical despair. The play first states that men patronize brothels not for sexual satisfaction, but in order to fulfill self-illusions; to try to translate their dreamworlds into...
...quite stolid and spiritless. M. Philippe, alternately confident and cowed, displayed a rather narrow range of emotions, and I wished at times that he would explode in anger or dissolve in passion, instead of just standing still and raising his eyebrows. Michele Morgan, the disillusioned milliner, was also rather static; it seemed that the director had instructed her to play a long-suffering, cynical woman, and that's about all she did. Brigitte Bardot, who appeared now and then as another dragoon's lover, acted like a high school girl in her first play...
...insisted that the new credit easing was a routine seasonal matter, but bankers and economists viewed it as a measure clearly designed to aid the static economy. One reason for FRB's caution is that it wants to avoid any sharp change in interest rates lest it step up the U.S. outflow of gold to nations with higher interest rates (see The Solid Gold Problem). Even more important, FRB is moving slowly because, like everyone else, it is unsure about where the economy is going - and whether it needs a nudge or a big push of easier credit...
...adviser of Richard Nixon, Lon L. Fuller, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, hit hard at the Democratic farm program. He said the system of controlling the market by issuing farmers marketing allotments makes for a "static farm system, unable to respond to change in soil, crop, or market conditions...
Identity has grown in stature since its early and unpromising days, and now attracts some of Cambridge's best writers. There has been an equivalent growth in price, so that each issue now costs fifty cents. Unfortunately, in the latest issue the size of the magazine continues static: Identity is as dainty as it was in the days of its sickly youth, publishing only a brief one-act play by Charles Mee, Anyone! Anyone!, Mark Mirsky's very short story, Shkootz, and Caroms, eight poems by Stephen Sandy...