Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cases like George Rockwell's happen occasionally, even in a society where the lunatic fringe is razor-thin. When they do, they serve to try the souls of sunshine libertarians. Rockwell is the crank leader of the American Nazi Party who, earlier this year, was denied permission to speak in a New York park. Now, with the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union, Rockwell has won his court battle and the City of New York has to issue him a speaking permit...
This transparent attempt at Meaning is in tune with the paper-thin plot line. Divorced husband, about to marry young sophisticate, is confronted with former wife days before divorce becomes final, with expected result. Author Jean Kerr abandons characterization at any time for the sake of a clever line, so that nobody seems very real, and the heroes, villains, and everybody in between all come out the same...
...pulled another rabbit out of her hat or even put enough bees in Tallulah's bonnet. Her sort of nursery-rhyme old crone scampering upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber has in places a nursery-rhyme lilt, but far too often a thin, struggling farce's laboredness. The kinfolk and clubwomen who keep trooping in and out make the struggle even harder. The play has charming moments, but only moments; flashes of bright Harveyesque humor, but only flashes...
...trying to push beyond specific race problems to a basic human-race one. Its serious and growing weakness is that to what is largely familiar material it brings little rewarding development, so that together with repeating others, it more and more repeats itself. Once the paint wears thin, there is the merest plywood behind it; but the paint itself is fresh...
...Council still fails to an identity, to define the extent of a domain. The Council has failed to arrow down the large and much too catch-all called "the purpose of the Harvard Student Council." As Howard J. Phillips '62, recently rejected President, admits, "The Council spreads itself too thin...