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...UNKEMPT THOUGHTS (160 pp.)-Stanislaw J. Lec-St. Martin's Press...
...typical Viet Cong soldier is a thin, unkempt young man hardly reaching a G.I.'s armpit and weighing scarcely 100 Ibs. Instead of riding in a Jeep or a helicopter, the Viet Cong private travels up to 40 miles a day through jungle on rubber-soled canvas shoes. His uniform is the same black calico shirt and trousers worn by all Vietnamese peasants; on his long, stringy hair he wears either a floppy jungle cap or a pith helmet covered with netting into which he thrusts camouflage appropriate to the terrain through which he is moving. His full field...
...Adrian is one of those who thinks that Miss Sutherland can only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir Adrian has ripped Handel's oratoria from its century, making it as operatic and as nineteenth-century as he can. The result is a sprawling, unkempt orchestra, bawling, dyspeptic singers, and crawling, inept tempos. (London A 4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix on its cover...
Most of Pinter's plays, mainly one-acters, have dealt with small, desperate souls in small, unkempt rooms, tuning in on them with cruel precision, but making no attempt to particularize or resolve their dilemmas. Three years ago, his first full-length play, The Birthday Party, was greeted by a chorus of derision from London critics and ran for only a week before audiences averaging 20 people. But Pinter's drab and isolated rooms, surrounded by the menace of the unknown and the uncontrollable, gradually seemed less obscure. The Birthday Party was revived with great success...
...more than a few thousand, their works are mostly transmitted verbally or copied from furtive, short-lived poetry magazines with names such as Cocktail and Boomerang. In Moscow and Leningrad, there are hundreds of unpublishable poets who advertise their calling by aping scruffy U.S. beatniks down to dirty dungarees, unkempt beards, and unfathomable doggerel...