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...ranges were announced without the consultation which had been promised. They also said that their efforts to gain information about the new system had been unsuccessful-even in a large mass meeting with Powers and Robert S. Giroux. manager of salary and wage administration. "They Eave us semi-answers," one secretary said...
...saved great chunks of their conversation in an almost suicidal attempt to remain faithful to the book. Unfortunately, his fidelity goes unrewarded. One never really quite believes the way Lawrence manipulates dialogue for his own didactic purposes. In the novel that doesn't really matter, because in his semi-mystic descriptions of nature, his hypersymbolic dramatic vignettes, his sometimes fumbling but mostly honest attempts to define sexuality, Lawrence gives us so much else to bolster his argument. His dialogue is only a part of a most imposing whole, and so we forgive it its deficiencies. So when Kramer's screenplay...
...sign on the big board said the track was fast. I loked up at the cloudy sky. Twenty-four American flags whipped in the wind at the top of the grandstand, and eleven more flapped in semi-circle in the parking lot. It was early; the big crowds hadn't come...
...hope for postal reform on a more modest Senate bill sponsored by Wyoming's McGee and Hawaii Republican Hiram Fong. The McGee-Fong bill, among other things, would retain a Senate-approved Postmaster General but would give Congress' cherished power of setting postal rates to a new, semi-autonomous board of commissioners. Though the slowly progressing bill is now in its eleventh version, Congress will be under strong pressure to pass some legislation before long. Almost certain to be attached to it is another 8% postal pay increase, which is the second installment of the Administration...
Indeed, Hoye's early scenes with Phil d'Agostino as his tutor boded ill for the overall impact of the play. Not only were the costumes of these two characters inappropriate (semi-modern as opposed to the more elaborate garb of the other characters), but Hoye and d'Agostino seemed very uncomfortable in their movements. This, like the occasional lapses in dialogue, might have been just opening night jitters...