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...theme, The Music Man is just one more sentimental-satiric yarn about a fake who floods a dull hole with genuine gaiety. It has, besides, its sinking spells of wit and mild attacks of cuteness. More damagingly, the second act has an air of playing back much of the first, repeating all manner of effects. Fortunately, The Music Man can even walk backward and downhill with considerable élan; there is no denying the bounce of the show...
...significant, humorous, or informative. One author describes a fictional seduction in the styles of J. D. Salinger and Sally Bingham, combined, and the results are highly predictable. There are three more or less newsy bits about jazz, Bennett College, and Jean Sheperd, a disc jockey, whose incisive wit suffers from the commercialization which Ivy gives it. A short article on Cambridge University probes an untrained needle into a host of generalization, and comes up with an interesting, but more or less meaningless analysis...
Nowhere does an expansiveness of spirit succeed better than in the realm of sculpture, to wit that of George Kolbe and especially of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. The latter transforms his message to drawing with the same permanence and surety he exhibits in stone, and in expressionism or any other art, permanence is what ultimately counts...
...Mississippi's Jackson Daily News, bushy-browed old-style columnist (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and prying reporter ("I may be a lousy editor, but I can still do a damn good job of reporting"), who was always ready to back up his razor-edged wit and deadly personal insult with well-worn fists; of cancer; in Jackson, Miss. Though he was a lifelong foe of Negro-baiters ("hysterical rabble-rousers and spouting demagogues"), and scathingly attacked the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Representative John Rankin and Governor Paul Johnson, Sullens was himself a confirmed opponent of desegregation...
...paper-cover trade. In the preface the editors state their conviction that "the entrepreneurs, who are the central figures in each story, are an important element in the U.S. economy" and that "there are plenty of opportunities, in good times and bad, for those who have the wit to see them...