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Five-Finger Exercise. One of the Broadway season's few well-written plays is the work of British Playwright Peter Shaffer, who nearly kills an outsider by shoving him into the deadly crossfire of a devastatingly ordinary and unhappy family...
Then, while the whole world's press has gone mad in sensationalism after the unhappy events in Sharpeville, you come out with a sober, factual, well-written article of what really went on in this hectic week...
...meaning. Author Pick (Out of the Pit, The Lonely Aren't Alone) makes his moral clear-and, finally, unnecessarily explicit. Man, saysPick in effect, is a creature of turmoil who, if he is doomed outside the sheltered valleys, is stifled within them. The view, powerfully expressed in a well-written book, is that of an existentialist, a romanticist who believes that a free man is one who accepts the world as incomprehensible...
From the routine makings of a conventional mystery story, Swiss Author Duerrenmatt produces a well-written and suspenseful story whose sad ironies raise it well above even the best whodunit level...
Aside from well-written and amusing scenes. The Baron in the Trees stops short of real worth. Its satire on life-on-the-ground is too tentative to slice deep, and only once does Author Calvino suggest a theme. That is when Voltaire asks Cosimo's brother: "But is it to be nearer the sky that your brother stays up there?" The answer: "My brother considers that anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from...