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Most of the 16 episodes related hinge lightly upon Andy's habitual infatuations and insouciant technique. There is a great deal of sprightly nonsense, gorgeous absurdity and amazingly glib barbarism. Here and there comes a cut, neat and very close to the bone: a program to allow university women...
THE WISDOM TOOTH?The wistful fantasy of an unsuccessful man who succeeded in returning to his youth.
In America much criticism is directed at existing industrial relations and much, no doubt, is deserved; but it is so easy to gain a distorted idea of the situation by broadly generalising isolated cases that a comprehensive, detached foreign view is needed as a corrective. It is at least reassuring...
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND-Naomi Mitchison-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In the declining days of Greece- when Athens was being slowly done to death by Sparta, when the age-old conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an...
The smoke of candles is still blowing off birthday cake, the children are being taken home and Martin is spared the full knowledge of what he is growing up to. And grown-up Mr. Morley in his own wistful type of fantasy has played the theme of lost childhood.