Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such attention to three superb writers involves slighting others equally good, and at least officially more mature. Richard Tillinghast, irrespressibly bright and in full control of his medium, makes capital out of conversation; James Tate, the Yale Younger Poet of the year, is a sharp, radiant poet with access to striking language; Stephen Sandy's skill and precision need no accolades. Howard Nemerov, Elizabeth Jackson Barker, Thomas Redshaw and the magazine's co-editor Timothy Mayo contribute to a very solid straight flush of poets, with no jokers...
...acting is completely gimmicky, but with fast and clever gimmicks. Chumley has mastered an idiot grin, and cartwheels admirably across the stage. Miss Bush and her counterpart Dame Chat (Joan Tolentino) scream too much, but their grimaces and multicolor petticoats (Lewis Smith's costuming is superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
...misleading to imply that more than a few moments of The Endless Summer are wavering or forced. The photography is superb, particularly those scenes actually filmed on a surfboard with a waterproof housing wrapped around the camera. And Brown's commentary, if you can stomach the occasional barbarisms or pass them off as charming naivete, is funny and quick...
...courtly Kentuckian who is still Mr. Krock to most Timesmen, many things seem to have changed for the worse. He deplores the powerful unions that have helped to kill some papers, and he dislikes the trend toward specialization among reporters. Not that some of the specialists are not superb, but where is "the old general-assignment man with the cold objectivity in questioning officials?" Today's reporters, says Krock, "frame questions on an argumentative basis instead of primarily to elicit information...
...Expanded Cinema or Intermedia Kinetic Environment (IKE)-a sort of slap-happening half on and half off the screen. For movie goers who did not particularly like IKE, there was periodic excitement in the main tent. Seventeen nations were represented in a program that included ten or a dozen superb shorts and five fine features. Pursuing ever more strongly a direction evident for more than a decade, the new films showed more freedom of narrative form, more richness of visual vocabulary. The new moviemakers more and more firmly reject the rules of the drama, and more and more sensitively obey...