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Gone is the sawdust; rubber matting is much easier to put down and neater to take up in the auditoriums where the tentless circus now plays. The freaks are still there in the sideshow, but it is considered discriminatory to call them by that name any longer, and the placards that identify them are like something out of a natural history museum. Gone is the little house that caught on fire; gone are the Living Statues; gone is the calliope; gone is Emmett Kelly, Gargantua, and Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy. But gone, most of all, is the innocent...
...more cues from New York, is achieving a specific British combination of emotion and sensibility. Sometimes the paintings evoke the grime of cities whose burdens are overpowering. At other times the warm freshness of nature overwhelms the painters' defenses, leaving a happy glow. The style tends to be neater and less vigorous than the American. More than fellow abstractionists elsewhere, the British acknowledge and reflect a debt to more conventional artists, such as the 19th century's Constable and Turner, and to contemporaries like Ben Nicholson and Graham Sutherland. Any complete sampler of British abstractionists would include...
First: the team to watch, and this is only half kidding, is Minnosota. And their big man is going to be a 20 year-old rookie shortstop named Zorro Versalles. What could he neater? Zorro is a tough little 150-pounder who gives the transplaned Twins somebody on which they can at last found an infield. Harmon Killebrow is for real; he proved it last year with 31 homers after a late year start. Jim Lemon can hit for distance, Lennie Green for average, and Bob Allison, who should recover from sophomore slump, for both. Earl Battey is the best...
...confesses that her "besetting sin is sloth. I'm a natural-born slob. I once mislaid a copy of the Reader's Digest in my purse." ("I," pronounces Walter Kerr with critical accuracy, "am a hell of a lot neater than she is.") She buys enough cosmetics to underwrite a television program, spends hours and fortunes at the hairdresser, but cares little for clothes, buying cut-rate bargains. She has been wearing the same grey-fur-collared cloth coat to Broadway openings for years, frequently with a button missing...
...exceedingly effective play is not Wolfe's novel miraculously purged of all its faults and yet preserving all its fullness. It could not be, and in a certain sense the play is not Look Homeward, Angel at all. It is neater, smaller, simpler -a workable family play, set against a background of the family boarding house and squeezed into a few weeks' time. In one respect, something has been lost: the characters are no longer so fully and revealingly lived with, hence so expressive or large. In another respect, something has been blurred: there is a lessened thematic...