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...Jazz Version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (the Gary McFarland Orchestra; Verve). Arranger-Bandleader McFarland achieves the all but impossible by putting some bite and character into the bland Frank Loesser score. Paris Original and Brotherhood of Man are gingery with ingenious instrumental chatter; I Believe in You turns into a fine, lightly swinging solo for Flugelhorn...
...first issue and reprised its first reprinted article, "How to Keep Young Mentally," which encouraged charter subscribers to "Observe! Remember! Compare!" Another feature of this first issue, also reproduced, was a varied collection of homilies, designed to plump out a page and satisfy the public appetite for bite-size sermons. Examples...
...Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, by a young man of 26, William Saroyan. The book was a mixture of love and pity and humor: pity and humor for everyone, especially bums and prostitutes, and love for life, no matter how preposterous. If it was writing that perhaps lacked bite, at least it did not gnash its teeth; if the prose was not exactly muscular, it had plenty of heart, and the heart, as everyone knows, is an involuntary muscle which cannot (and need not) be flexed...
Brecht is exciting because he found his own voice and knew how to use it. He loved reality more than realism. He could define the ecstasies and agonies of love, work, exile, hope, life and death in images of savage bite and lyrical beauty. Among the vivid images in Brecht on Brecht: Anne Jackson miming the simple glories of the world for her unborn son; Dane Clark doing an amusing Method depth-probe of which hat to wear for a four-minute part: Lotte Lenya conjuring up the ghostly, ghastly Berlin...
...against the Cuba venture all along. Kennedy decided to get Bowles out. He invited Bowles down for a swim in the White House pool. Then the two had lunch while Kennedy explained that he had a new job, outside Washington, in mind for Bowles. Bowles not only refused to bite at Kennedy's bait, but went out and stirred up protests among his cultist liberal following. In the face of a fuss, Jack Kennedy backed away - but anyone