Word: slipping
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After 53 years of following all the rules, Bank President Harris Filmore made a slip and was sentenced to ten years for fraud. It cost him his wife, his twelve-room house in Westchester and the approval of his peers. He is sent to grim Audton prison, where, as Convict 3355, Filmore is closeted with assorted thieves, rapists and murderers...
Caldwell's greatest talent lies in his ability to rescue from the ordinary whatever humor, whatever unexpected might otherwise slip by into the hour-after-hour sameness of the past. He finds wisdom even in an encounter with a hitchhiker, praises the man's courage to live by bumming ("I take my hat off to you mister") and generally disconcerts the degenerate by taking him so seriously. "My father brought to conversations a cavernous capacity for caring that dismayed strangers," Peter relates. "They found themselves involved, willy-nilly, in a futile but urgent search for the truth...
Jane Powell (Madame Irma) evinces an erratic but professional competence. Often she speaks with elegance, or at least worldly majesty. But at other times, frequently at crucial points in the script, she lets a sentence or two slip away unemphasized. This may result from justifiable boredom with some of her more portentously extravagant lines...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra was the supreme U.S. orchestra under Serge Koussevitsky from 1924 to 1949. Charles Munch, who led the orchestra from 1949 until last fall, allowed its standards to slip somewhat, sparing only the French repertory as Boston's private domain. Under Erich Leinsdorf, 51, one of the Metropolitan Opera's greatest conductors, the orchestra has already regained a degree of its lost precision of ensemble, and it retains its long reputation as the orchestra richest in virtuosos...
...word for Ben, it turns out, is embittered nonconformist. While he forces Gloria to strip to her red-and-blue-flowered slip, and collects kisses on demand, he begins talking the poor girl to death on the subject of the death of the individual. His mission, he proclaims, is to be a brutal predator in this world of sheep. Then Playwright Schisgal tips his plot upside down like an hourglass. Shortly, Gloria is chatterboxing Ben's ears with lists of suburban conformities: pulling crabgrass, going bowling, bed-hopping around. While they prate of the lack of communication among moderns...