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...SYLVIA S. VIZCOCHO Manhattan...
Sandy Dennis plays Tyro Schoolmarm Sylvia Barrett and re-creates with considerable grace her abandonment of college-bred tenets and concepts to cope with realities in the concrete jungle. Both antagonistic forces-a bunch of surly, underprivileged kids on one side and a school administration of monolithic obtuseness on the other-abound in stereotypes: the unloved Fat Girl, the sullen boy with a streak of buried brilliance, the love-hungry spinster, the platitude-spinning principal and his vicious, misanthropic assistant...
...torso must be well-formed, with the bustline not accentuated," read the criteria for the Miss Universe contest. Not pausing to quibble over semantics, the judges in Miami Beach looked over 56 nicely accentuated young ladies and selected the reigning Miss U.S.A., Sylvia Hitchcock, 21, to be the next Miss Universe. A Miami poultry farmer's daughter and an art major at the University of Alabama, the new queen plans to go into teaching if her head isn't turned by $31,000 in baubles and the lure of Hollywood...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Curt Jurgens, Orson Welles and Sylvia Syms star in this drama about a man without a country, forever exiled to life aboard a Ferry to Hong Kong...
...issue's cover proudly announces the publication of six early poems by Sylvia Plath; they indicate she was not always a good poet. While the early poems anticipate her later bleak preoccupation with madness and death, they fall far short of the technical virtuosity and the intensity of her later work. More intriguing than the poems are the essays which accompany them. Elizabeth Aldrich's analysis of "The Eye-Mote" (which appeared in Miss Plath's first volume, The Collossus) takes the poem apart and puts it back together in the finest style of New Criticism and, incidentally, gives...