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...sometimes a jazz group) and moved into theaters, dance halls and recording studios. This was the era of Bessie Smith's classic records. By the 1930s, a new style was forged around tenements, speakeasies and rent parties?a harsher, more nervous brand of blues that reflected the stress and tempo of urban living. This style mingled with the blaring jazz and blues that swept out of the Southwest during the swing era (Andy Kirk, Count Basic), and so the stage was set for the emergence, after World War II, of rhythm & blues...
Based on the play by John Osborne, Inadmissible Evidence has made a triumphant transition to the screen, with all of its claustrophobic intensity, venom and quinine-bitter laughter intact. In his scenario for the film, Osborne has speeded the tempo by slimming the monologues; Director Anthony Page has gained added power by close-ups that pore over a human face desolate in its frustrations. As on the London and New York stage, the demanding role of Maitland is enacted by Nicol Williamson, a player of explosive passion. Williamson does not merely perform; he lays his life on the line...
Hard-Driving & Tough. Yet another shift in the tempo if not the direction of the talks may have been presaged by the arrival in Paris of Le Duc Tho, who ranks seventh in the North's all-powerful Communist Politburo and is the most important party theoretician after Ho Chi Minh himself. Born in Tonkin, Tho helped Ho found the Indo-Chinese Communist Party in 1929, served long sentences at penal labor under the French, and lived for many years in the South. Harddriving, ascetic and tough, Tho is believed to have purged the party in South Viet...
...Committee recommends few changes in the mechanics of recruitment. It endorses the use of ad hoc committees (groups of scholars outside the department who are called in to approve or reject a department's candidate for a tenured position). But the report deplores what it bluntly calls "the glacial tempo" at which these committees operate. In the interim between first contacts and final ad hoc committee approval a man is often offered huge salary increases by his present employer and turns down Harvard. The report documents in exhaustive detail the complicated recommendations for multiple appointments or departmental restructuring that have...
...nourished in the provinces of a nation. All the world's a stage, but only the great culture capitals, such as Paris, London and New York, are large enough worlds for a playwright. The city imbues him with conflict, crisis, tension. The city moves at a kinetic tempo; drama catches the beat. Like an opulent genius of creation, the city sketches a hundred finely shaded variations on a common human type, stages a thousand impromptu confrontations from dawn to dawn. All this is the adrenaline of drama, and in the U.S., only New York provides...