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...task for philosophers, Marx said, is not to interpret the world, but to change it. As Hickok never pretends to philosophy, there can be no faulting her unwillingness to call for change. What a reader finds in her reporting, instead, might prove more enduring. With her sensitivity, her thirst for detail, and above all, her sincerity, Lorena Hickok succeeded in finding what radical social theorists have merely postulated to exist--that among us which is human. In taking to the home' of America, and then, reporting what she felt, Lorena Hickok avoided the flaw that undermined other 1930's writers...
...natural that the other players call him "Walrus," since it is impossible to look at him and think of anything else. When he speaks, his mustache bobs up and down as punctuation. He is a man of humor, but it is dry. Maybe because his words are dry, his thirst for beer is great...
Tempted by Wilson's continuing thirst for his sage counsel the President one night surreptitiously sneaked over to the Justice's Washington apartment for advice on a political appointment--Brandeis, as a Justice proffered his advice quietly but persistently, using Wilson lieutenants as intermediaries. The depth of his feeling on several prominent issues of the day the need for a Zionist homeland and the cause of Progressivism also made behind-the-scenes lobbying for specific policies a temptation Brandeis could not resist...
BOSWELL EFFORTLESSLY weaves these sketches together with the rest of his analysis and anecdotes, producing a work of unusual unity. No special theme or theory, but a bounding and unquenchable thirst lot the game reverberates through out, celebrating continuously is this most sublime of as activities. The varied pace of Hoss Life at times crisp and humorous, at others, slow and reflective mirrors the different shades and nuances of baseball itself. The old and the new mix felicitously together...
...instead of blending into a cohensive unit, the play becomes a potpourri of assorted themes and characters. Only occasionally do sparks ignite, but they only leaves the audience with an unquenched thirst for more. The conversation between Harold Ryan and his son Paul (Leo Luberecki) as Ryan tells of his adventures the audience of for a moment, as the pair's first-ever meeting proves moving. But the momentum doesn't last. Besides, we've seen enough housewives breaking out on their own and we've seen enough of macho men destroyed and replaced by the scientific, mechanized heroes...