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Down to $29.30. In his search, white-maned, gruff Harry Mosser, 65, has the advantage of knowing South Texas as if it were his own backyard. He was born in San Antonio, brought up in Alice, Duval County, worked in his father's bank in Alice, and cotton farmed after leaving the University of Texas. He began buying up oil leases in the '20s all over South
Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Director Frank Schaffner left little doubt about whom he had in mind. Among other coincidences, the chairman of the Senate committee is gruff and dry-throated (Arkansas' Senator McClellan), the Senate's counsel boyish and shock-haired (Robert Kennedy). The Rank and File had more than its share of walking, talking cliches, was clearly less concerned with presenting moving characters than with characterizing a movement. But if nothing else, it succeeded in dramatizing the breathtaking reversal of political fortunes that transformed, in one generation, yesterday's picket-line victims into today's labor...
...beginning, an almost excellent satire of the social climber, given bite by the implication that the climber's position is not so much his own fault as that of society. And some of society's offenders appear more sharply in this light than they do in the book. The gruff nature of M. de Renal, for one, is brilliantly emphasized, providing a clear motive for Julien's well meditated social ascent. Then, too, the seduction scenes are fine stuff, exhibiting some well coordinated pussyfooting from bedroom to bedroom...
Holy Cross. It took gruff, brilliant Misogynist Sill 34 years to consent to Kent's first dance. At another dance, Father Sill himself played the fiddle-interrupting himself periodically to give overexuberant couples a smart rap with...
...about education for women, and it shows Gilbert at close to his worst. Behind the gruff whiskers, fat belly, and sharp tongue there lurked a small, narrow, smug, Philistine, and thoroughly reactionary mind, and a nagging weakness for the most squalidly dull-thud variety of pun. Both these latter qualities are prominently on display in Princess Ida. Moreover, some mad infatuation (something, perhaps, to do with the Tennyson poem of which Ida is a parody) led him to cast the thing in blank verse, of the sort Shaw must have had in mind when he said that blank verse...