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...Unfortunately, that's about all anyone could like about 1776, which is sort of an extra-large Hallmark Hall of Fame littered with a few drab songs and some jokes Ben Franklin tells about Thomas Jefferson's six life. Really, the best that can be said about this musical (written by Peter Stone) is that the flag-waving is kept to a minimum and the cast is, sometimes, inoffensive. While 1776 will run for years, I think it is Mr. Feiffer who is on the right track. Maybe we should forget about all those silly patriots, who, in compromising...
...THEM, one of the closest, has finally chosen to present what he knew of Hammarskjold in an attempt to "answer some of the questions too often asked me." What Bo Beskow has written is not a biography of Hammarskjold, not even an account of Hammarskjold's life during the years Beskow knew him; it makes no attempt to recount the man's career, except when it impinges upon Beskow's private story. Perhaps even Beskow's term for his book, "a portrait," is incorrect, because one does not begin to get, even at a single point in time, a full...
...GRIES' 100 Rifles demands somewhat more attention if only because Gries made Will Penny, an interesting little Charlton Heston picture that opened and closed last year despite unusually good reviews. Will Penny alternated some alertly-written unconventional scenes with great globs of familiar nonsense, finally falling to pieces with an unnecessarily downbeat ending. Its photography, by Lucien Ballard, consisted of tightly cropped, often two-dimensional compositions avoiding self-consciousness and trickery. The whole venture had a ring of effort and honesty about it, despite its failings, and I went to see 100 Rifles to investigate how many of Will Penny...
...humorous letter of acceptance written by the News' Marathon coach David H. Nix, the following bold words announced their confidence: "Ye of the uncivilized north take heed, and decided now whether you dare follow through on your presumptuous challenge, for we vow to show no mercy...
...presentiment of impending fate, for he had spoken a good deal to us of the chances of death, and had even selected his own epitaph, so that on the little wooden cross which stands at the foot of Bastion Hill-the hill he himself took and held-there is written: "Is it well with the child? It is well...