Word: unevennesses
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...entirety, Paterson makes a bold bid for attention as one of the few important long poems written in the aoth Century U.S.; it may evoke comparison with Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Is Paterson a successful poem or an uneven performance, with alternating passages of beauty and incoherence? Well, they're still arguing about Whitman...
Negro Baritone William Warfield helps things along for a while with a surefire performance of Ol' Man River. And at welcome intervals during its uneven course between timeless songs and dated story, Show Boat brings on the dancing of Broadway's Marge and Gower Champion, whose bounce and grace (notably in Life Upon the Wicked Stage) give the production its smoothest sailing...
...Henry Morgan Show (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBCTV) began three months ago as a take-off on TV amateur hours. Last week, abandoning such zany performers as talking dogs, stilt-walkers and bicep-dancers, Morgan introduced a new series of uneven but fresh TV sketches. The best of them showed Morgan suffering through a friend's home movies and Morgan as a TV newscaster being confused by four wall clocks (for Paris, London, Algiers and McKeesport). The commercials, animated cartoons for Campbell's Soup, are self-consciously cute...
Failures & Competitions. In the rest of China, economic gains have been spotty. The Government's Committee on Finance & Economics, working toward a planned economy, has confused both private and public enterprises with its numerous decrees. Price fixing has been erratic. Taxation has been uneven. To step up output, the regime has sponsored a "Patriotic Emulation Drive," an imitation of the Russian Stakhanovite methods...
...towering role of De Lawd, 27-year-old William Marshall brings physical Tightness and a proper dignity, but not the stature of the late William B. Harrison, and not the grandeur demanded by the part. The play itself, being highly episodic, can hardly avoid being uneven; and along with folk touches that seem genuine and fresh, go some that seem slick and laid on. But The Green Pastures in general is a stage piece that derives its vitality from something more far-reaching than the stage...