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An uproarious, perceptive play about a man of 35 who finds genuinely childish behavior the logical response to a hypocritical, senile world, Crawling Arnold invalidates the praise Feiffer once received--"your people speak just like real people; put them on the stage and they'll sound just like real people...
This spirit is supplemented by the tribute to Rene Leynaud, written just after his death in 1944. Many have found Camus' undefined and imprecise use of the words "honor" and "decency" confusing: here is their explanation. A precis would be unfair, but Leynaud, who "never bargained about anything", will be...
Wouldn't it be useful, suggested Reston, to prepare the President-elect for the or deal of office, with 1 ) summaries of the studies of the presidential work load drafted by Eisenhower commissions, and 2) a precis of the unfinished business left by the departing President? And, he added...
Montmartre Authority. Edith Piaf is still incredibly corny, but with such artful simplicity that the corn becomes completely convincing. Arms akimbo and skinny legs aspraddle, her only jewelry a silver crucifix, accompanying musicians hidden behind a curtain, she stares past the spotlight and pounds honest emotion into some wretched lyrics...
No one, certainly not a professional historian, would dare to box the compass of Churchill's subject matter. His great grasp of the essential fact made him, in power, a master of decision and, in the hindsight of history, a master of the precis. Never has so much been...