Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monk lead. "That's right, Monk," they seem to be saying, "you tell 'em, baby." But Monk demands that musicians be themselves. "A man's a genius just for looking like himself," he will say. "Play yourself!" With such injunctions in the air, the quartet's performances are uneven. Some nights all four play as though their very lives are at stake; some nights, wanting inspiration, all four sink without a bubble. But it is part of Monk's mystique never to fire anyone. He just waits, hoping to teach, trusting that a man who cannot learn will eventually sense...
...probably the crucial essay in the book, "History and Psychoanalyis: The Explanation of Motive." In this essay, Hughes proposes that perhaps "psychoanalysis can help history to cope with its supreme difficulty--the motivation of great historical actors of the past." This is at once the best and the most uneven of the chapters--uneven in the sense that it is brilliantly lucid and brilliantly erratic in close turn...
...York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Arguments for: leading Democratic figure in a pivotal state, a Catholic. Arguments against: a dilatory personality, an uneven record, no national experience...
...Uneven Spate. This is light treatment, even in the current cultural "thaw" on which Nikita Khrushchev seems to blow now hot, now cold. Other writers have fared much worse-or feared to try publishing at all. The Trial Begins, a brilliant satiric fantasy that treats life among party members as a grotesque nightmare of greed and hypocrisy, had to be smuggled out of Russia and printed under the assumed name of Abram Tertz. No one yet knows who the real author is. Soviet Writer Valery Tarsis, in The Bluebottle (Knopf), cavalierly compared the attitude of officials liquidating citizens to that...
...film suffers because its battle of the sexes is an uneven contest. Reginald Kernan-an American physician turned model and actor-looks fine in hunting clothes, but seems generally opaque as the husband. He is clearly outclassed by Signoret, whose vast aplomb enables her to crack open a fifth of Johnnie Walker and dab Scotch on her wrists and ear lobes for all the world as if it were Jolie Madame...