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...lighted bars, cocktail lounges, and saloons that provide the last refreshment to Boston wayfarers on the long, cold trip over the river to the Arlington wilderness. "And not only frappes," the aproned entrepreneur continued, vigorously chewing the remnants of a nondescript cheroot, "but boneless turkey, Saturday Reviews of Literature, razor blades shoe polish, and back editions of the Wake--all at the right price...
...noticed that the boys from the Necco factory annex down the river have used up the ten minutes allowed for liberal arts courses by taking time to squawk about the name of a bridge. It is not enough that they have the Tek Tooth Brush and the Gillette Tech Razor (and who can deny the utility of these gifts of science). Now they want a bridge...
...Neill suffered a paralytic stroke and for six months required constant nursing. The stroke was followed by an increasing (and incurable) palsy so severe that it made writing as physically impossible for O'Neill as it already was mentally. (To shave himself he still has to grip the razor with both hands and, even so, the act is nerve-racking.) For five years the O'Neills lived in their little apartment. During those years, O'Neill had neither the heart nor the hand for creative work. But those years of silence and suffering may yet prove...
Leading the latest procession from parlor to bedroom is the incomparable mountebank, Clifton Webb, gracefully balancing Noel's sheaf of tarts and darts. He hits the razor's edge with every gesture, shrug and intonation. Up against this kind of finesse Monty Wooley would be made to look like a blundering clod. Portraying the actor whose life aim begins and ends with his own convenience, Webb does a pungently sophisticated job of lechery and of molding the lives of the satellite circle of blustering men and urbane women who serve as his foils...
What manner of man is Mr. Conant's tough-minded idealist, on whom he pins so much hope? Seemingly, he must walk the razor's edge between cynicism and sentimentalism, a man of faith, but yet one who constantly submits that faith to rigorous analysis and criticism. A man determined not to confine his ideals to noble platitudes, but to afford them real meaning by comparison of various concrete approximations of those ideals. And, finally, not a revolutionist, yet something more than a gradualist--a believer in "rapid evolution...