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...this world, and yet it has its own necessary coherence-as shown by the dramatic moments described in this week's cover story on the epic flight of Gordon Cooper. Nowadays everyone from garage mechanics to gospel singers have their own lingo, their own shorthand, and their own vivid phraseology. It might be possible to put out an issue of TIME in the 850 words of Basic English, but to do so would be to leave out an essential vitality in the way Americans do and say things...
...Bissinger has carefully rehearsed one of the finest casts assembed on a Harvard stage in recent years. As the fisherman who suspects the Americans' motives, Harry Cooper is vivid and strong. Anne Lilley Kerr is convincing in her desire, and Josephine Simon succeeds in transforming Rachel Verney's unique postwar experience into one of dramatic pertinence. Otto Holmberg turns the not-too-intriguing son into a sympathetic figure...
Stewart recalled that he had spent many pleasant moments with President Griswold over the past ten years. "Whit Griswold has been a champion of the best in intellectual life in Yale University and elsewhere," he said. "As president of Yale he has given it all the advantages of a vivid personality and a restless mind...
...artists, William Dobell. Inside, in the World section, you will find eight pages of color photographs, which seek to capture the primitiveness, the modernity, the ruggedness and the beauty of this new island nation, whose principal connecting highway will be the sea. Along with the photographs goes a vivid map by R. M. Chapin Jr., showing Malaysia's divisions, topography, population and crops. And after this introduction comes the three-page cover story on the Tunku, written by Contributing Editor John Gregory Dunne...
...book consists of ten autobiographical pieces that take Miller from his Brooklyn boyhood through his apprenticeship in a tailor's shop to the hard life of a literary bum in Paris. Bits are wonderfully done with vivid scenes of jazzed-up action, like an early silent movie full of custard pies, female underclothes and slightly zany captions...