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...creating a production, using Beckett's words, that does not orchestrate but instead amplifies. For the one thing always true of Beckett is that he is all essence: over the years he has pared down his work until there is nothing left but the bare message of indomitable life-without obscuring fuzz. Accordingly, of the ninety-odd minutes of Exercises en route, not one was superfluous...
...girl who steals out of O'Casey's pages into Cassidy's heart -and gives the whole film a persistent, throbbing pulsebeat-is Nora (Maggie Smith), the shy, strong-minded colleen who finally takes leave of him because "I need a small, simple life-without your terrible dreams and your terrible anger." Actress Smith makes even reticence seem a powerful emotion...
...then told Skardon the story of his life-without admitting espionage. When Skardon asked him to "unburden his mind and clear his conscience" by telling the full story, Fuchs snapped, "I will never be persuaded by you to talk...
...included George Marshall, William Bullitt, and Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Only a few were old fashioned enough to avoid the merely topical, and even fewer managed to talk of commencement's traditional theme-the way to an intelligent and useful life-without bogging into platitude...