Word: unevennesses
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...country youth's narrative, the story sketches a minister's efforts to bring a pair of town dissolutes to church. Cowley manages to weave a good many colloquialisms into the piece and to catch the naivete of his narrator's impressions, but frequently his sentences are stiff and uneven...
...American Week (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS) was a more uneven offering. Eric Sevareid started in major-league fashion with diagrammed displays of what would happen to big cities of the U.S. if they were targets of the H-bomb, and followed with filmed quotes from Physicist Ralph Lapp ("Let's have the facts given to the public") and ex-Diplomat George Kennan. But anticlimax followed with a "human interest" look at baseball and a too-long digression into the progress of the Wisconsin movement to vote the recall of Senator McCarthy. Sevareid announced that "I expect to use some...
Like many dramatizations, the play is episodic and uneven. But much of the writing has a quick, lashing force. The best episodes are both harsh and compassionate; and the character of the girl-both as written and played-has a tragic truthfulness...
Comedians were flown in from Hollywood and Florida to do two-and three-minute introductions of the different numbers. Jack Benny had an uneven skit about his troubles in buying a ticket to a Rodgers & Hammerstein hit; Edgar Bergen made only the sketchiest effort at being a ventriloquist in a pair of episodes with Charlie McCarthy and Ed Sullivan; Groucho Marx got the best laughs as a quizmaster cutting Rodgers & Hammerstein down to size...
...gamble. Although its production has uneven sections, it is acted with a singleness and intensity that conveys great power...