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SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfrid Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares...
...Spain, moves into a dingy pensión, sits around in cafés with the local American beatniks, even goes off to Morocco for awhile to see if marijuana is the answer. And slowly he discovers what all sensible people know: that all the world over, hips are duller than squares. In the end he returns to the suburbs, his wife returns to him, and they both settle down resignedly to cultivate a sense of irony...
...screen, such theatrical twosomes are more often swallowed by it, and Simple Man is no exception. Actress Cilento, strikingly miscast, has the style and quality for a more respectable trade. Worse still, added scenes and nonessential characters only give the viewers time to think dark thoughts, and in the duller stretches, some may wonder whether the to-bed-or-not-to-bed urgency that besets a working-class lout is really much different from the decision that Doris Day has faced so often and so bravely...
...Democratic National Convention, the networks achieved the impossible. In their frenetic scramble to make the trivial significant and the significant momentous, they succeeded in making the convention seem even duller than dull reality. It was no wonder that, on the climactic night of the nominations, nearly half of all New York City viewers were glued to independent stations offering such attractions as a rerun of an Untouchables episode, a rerun of a Marilyn Monroe documentary, and a rerun of a movie space opera called The Brain from Planet Arous...
That people will misunderstand Euripides is a phenomenon easily explained. They read translations by classicists like Gilbert Murray who have forced the subtleties of a sophisticated text into duller patterns jerry-built for modern...