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...This vivid account of a week with the U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands was written by New York Times Correspondent F. Tillman Durdin, and is reprinted by permission of the Times...
...whole thing is too gaudy, but what spoils it even as theater is that it's for the most part too shopworn. The bright comedy moments and briefly vivid scenes are swallowed up in the pat speeches, dime-a-dozen situations, stagey gestures, footlight heroics. Playwright Williams has let his memories of a hundred bad plays blot out lis memories...
...tunes of the '70s, '80s and '90s were nobler and more beautiful, the quoted lyrics, vivid and picturesque as they are, give few hints of it. Lost Chords leaves the reader wondering whether Author Gilbert, in his comment on Dixie, has not hit on an important near-truth-the clue to the popularity of most pop songs: "The words don't mean anything, but there is a skin-prickling element in the melody...
...wish to object to the Crimson's portrayal of the barber shop price situation. May I point out that only one of the Harvard Square barbers opposed the raise in prices. In answer to the Crimson's vivid prediction of students rushing across the river to Boston for haircuts, I wish to point out that the meeting of the Harvard Square barbers was just one local chapter meeting of a large national organization, and that price rises could be expected throughout Greater Boston and the rest of the country, in keeping with the trend of the times...
Otis Town's lust for land, and the wartime price of cotton, carried him from poverty to fantastic wealth and ruin, made assorted monsters of his wife and children, and left him in the end with a certain indestructible magnificence. It is the vivid history of Delta cotton and the people who raised it, from the day when they cleared the first land to the early '20s, when cotton let them down and the great Northern combines took over...