Word: unevennesses
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Crichton is the author of the highly successful Secret of Santa Vittoria, and this book is already a bestseller. Yet The Camerons curiously resembles an autobiographical first novel; its uneven scenes are sometimes sheer cardboard, sometimes compelling. Easy complaints about slickness, commerce and sentimentality, though, do not do justice to the great affection and knowledge that Crichton shows. His description of a starved, out-of-work miner treating himself to one golden, fabulously self-indulgent, perfectly boiled egg would splinter a heart...
...other stories in the book, while more or less mediocre, demonstrate along with the story of the boy and the ancient prostitute, a certain ability for the particular and an insight into the quixotic. Although the over-riding characteristic of Lessing's writing-which is extremely uneven from story to story-is long-windedness, it is only when she addresses social abstracts that she makes a fool of herself. Then, appreciable as her sentiments may be it is one long wince for the reader, and, especially if the reader is under thirty, rather like watching one's parents...
...even longer-lasting effect has been Nixon's indifference to the need to appoint men of the highest legal standards to the Supreme Court. After Congress quite properly rejected two of his appointees and forced him to raise his sights, he successfully elevated men who, although better, were of uneven quality. They share his constitutional philosophy, voting as a bloc in 53 out of 70 of the court's recent nine-man decisions. Nixon quite likely will be able to make more appointments in his next term: William O. Douglas is 74, Thurgood Marshall is in shaky health...
...Erick Hawkins Dance Company is the current forum for the abstract, avantgarde, and sometimes uneven work of a former husband and partner of Martha Graham. Hawkins regularly choreographs his works before his long-time collaborator, Composer Lucia Dlugoszewski, writes the music. This rather strange reversal of step and beat, not to mention cart and horse, too often showed in what might have been called the super-calisthenicization of his choreography. Yet Hawkins frequently attained a timeless mood in such Oriental-flavored works as Dawn Dazzled Door. The psuedo-Apollonian Angels of the Inmost Heaven featured a quartet of beauties...
Freshmen compete in uneven match ups today as Harvard's powerful Yardling football team clashes with an average squad from Princeton, while the Tigers fine soccer team battles the Crimson's erratic booters this morning in Princeton...