Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wedded to novel length writing, and his 80-pagem parody grows into a tiresome, nasty, repetitive 352-page expose. for Mr. Wilson has little else to say in his extra 272-pages. That Carter is immoral is abundantly evident in the first chapter; that his world is doomed to swift collapse is equally apparent. And yet Mr. Wilson feels compelled to narrate the events that reveal Carter as a bounder, and that bring about the final disintegration of all the bloated, macabre Curators...
...This sentimental cliche seemed to deaden the vivacious choruses from The Beggar's Opera, and seemed to some degree to underlay almost all the folksongs. Davison's arrangement did avoid it by its striking chords and elaborate voicing, and Fukunata's Barcarolle of Koshiki Isle escaped it through a swift melodic dive repeated throughout...
...title of the smash hit musical of Broadway's new season-How to Succeed m Business Without Really Trying -is actually a bit misleading. The hero is energetic, guileful, scheming, ambitious, shrewd, sly and ruthless. In short, he really tries hard, and his swift progression from window washer to chairman of the board is accomplished with such finesse that you scarcely notice the blood on the corpses. The character, in fact, is so basically repulsive that there is probably only one Broadway actor who could turn this despicable crud into the most lovable monster since Barrie's crocodile...
Penrod & Sammy. Morse's own swift rise on Broadway has not always been so endearing. He was so irritatingly erratic during the road trials of his first play. 1953's The Matchmaker, that the rest of the nervous cast was ready to sign a petition to have him dropped; but he eventually scored a personal triumph, peeping out from under a table shouting, "We're all terribly innocent," and he was the only member of the Broadway cast who was signed to appear in the film version. During the pre-Broadway run of his next play...
Died. John Holmes, 70, longtime (1937-55) president of Swift & Co., an Irish immigrant who, on the strength of a rare combination of amiability and keen analytic intelligence, rose to become the first non-Swift to head the world's largest meat-packing firm; of a heart attack; in Tucson, Ariz...