Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Identity begins its second year with a double, 44-page edition, on thickish paper, with a pleasant and faintly erotic cover. Its contents, however, are not so impressve; it has the range of quality usual in most Cambridge literary publications--some good stuff, some not so good stuff, and some very bad stuff indeed...
...summer afternoon. The dialogue, though rough in many places is done with some skill and the illusion of the character transformation is reasonably effective. The vast, pseudo-profound generalizations in the tragedy sequence are not always successful, and a number of Revere's phrases (the title, for instance) though pleasant sounding, and even suggestive, have no actual maening. Even with these limitations, however, A Wind of Light is a creditable piece, and should be interesting to see performed at Dunster House later in the year...
Along with the problem of too little money, strikers carry the burden of too much time. During the first few weeks of the strike, many of them found it pleasant to have leisure for fishing and do-it-yourself projects. But then boredom set in. "I wish it was over," sighs Steel Mill Machinist Louis Webb, saturated with TV. "I like to work." Even worse than boredom for some strikers is a growing feeling of helplessness as the strike drags on and savings dwindle. "Sometimes when I go to bed," says Frank Sekula, "I think: Here I am a head...
...Both make the most of their important relationship, reacting to each other with a sensitivity that escapes the impersonality of the screen. Their love affair seems dramatically as well as thematically plausible. Heather Sears, cast as the daughter of the local power, employs her bland manner with purpose. Her pleasant, but empty face, and her unobtrusiveness, admirably heighten her own meaningless relationship to Harvey. Knowing that her role is one of the pawn, she has enough sense not to turn it into a tour de force performance...
...varsity, Fitzgerald, Mark Mullin, and Ralph Perry should lead the way. Perry in particular has been a pleasant surprise this fall, capping a promising training period with an 18:58 performance in last week's three and one-half mile University Handicaps...