Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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There are four main species: hard-looking City People, College Students, Way-Out-of-Towners, and You. Within those classifications are countless inevitables: the girl with the white orchid pinned to her evening bag (first nightclub? first anniversary?); the short-haired sophomores being smoked by pipes; the woman with the leopard blouse and the tumbling, bright blonde hair; battered men with battered credit cards, wearing off-white ties. The expense-account mood is almost never really drunken and almost never really blithe. Nobody seems to feel thoroughly comfortable...
...Canada's national magazines that they complain of from U.S. magazines' Canadian editions, Publisher Michael Wardell of the Fredericton, N.B. Atlantic Advocate (circ. 22,982) had flatly told the Commission: "There can be no possible justification for a general assault upon American magazines -which would be nothing short of an assault upon freedom of the press...
...drama, Tunes of Glory falls somewhat short of its ambitious intentions. The script, written by Novelist Kennaway, succeeds in waging the internecine peace of barracks life, in suggesting the almost homosexual intensity of male relationships in a world too safe from women; and Director Ronald (The Horse's Mouth) Neame makes the most of these opportunities. But the last third of the film is confused by errors of exposition. The picture begins and middles along as a warmly human comedy of military character. The mood of the violent conclusion is unprepared and therefore unacceptable...
...flair and his crafty talent for wedding the ridiculous to the dramatic, he might easily become an important prose bard. But Ustinov wants to write. While he did reasonably well in his engaging 1957 comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, he failed badly last year in his book of short stories. Add a Dash of Pity. To his credit, Ustinov refuses to quit: he has written a first novel...
...TRIAL BEGINS, by Abram Tertz. Smuggled out of Russia, author unknown, this short novel moves with surgical precision through the surrealist world of Soviet prison camps and the larger reservation that is Communist society. At one end of the spectrum stands the conditioned Soviet organization man, at the other the disillusioned idealists who wonder whatever happened to their dream...