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...moment, most Nixon advisers lean toward quiet consultation in the clubby fraternity of central bankers and treasury officials as a more promising approach. Though the Nixon camp is committed to no specific program for monetary reform, any effort would include debate on the means...
Harvard has just as much depth at defense. Chris Gurry and George McManama are two returning lettermen who played last year as sophomores. Gurry, a lean 5'11", 170-pound defender, is famous for his bodywork. He racked up 40 minutes of penalties last year--second only to fellow sophomore Terry Flaman, who acquired 49 minutes...
WHEN A PLAY is small, you've got to do big things with it to make it live. Aleksei Arbuzov's The Promise has all the signs of a small work: brief scenes that allow little sustained action, a lean plot, and a theme that's nothing to write home about. It is more a character study than a play--the story of two teen-age boys and a girl who escape death during the tragic siege of Leningrad only to become failures as adults...
Siegel fleshes out this lean plot by taking a long look at low life in Fun City. Using discotheques, squad rooms and pool halls, he creates a tense atmosphere of violence that encloses the action like a straitjacket. Eastwood, who has hitherto displayed nothing more than a capacity for iron-jawed belligerency in a series of Italian-made westerns, performs with a measure of real feeling in the first role that fits him as comfortably as his tooled leather boots...
...Sheaffer in the first book of his two-volume biography. Sheaffer suggests that O'Neill might have been "perhaps no writer at all, had he had a more stable and reassuring childhood." Even less a stylist than his subject. Sheaffer, a former newspaper reporter, does little more than lean over the playwright's shoulder, tirelessly paraphrasing what O'Neill wrote in his most autobiographical play and his one masterpiece, Long Day's Journey Into Night: "I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted...