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...essays on Harlem and the South from merely well-done jobs to truly polished jewels. Most of the essays on problems of the American Negro are not so exceptional; in them, Baldwin shows himself to be no more than a straightforward, precise, writer; but the emotion which can slip into his words is sometimes surprising, and his work occasionally produces moments of peculiar power...
...from the Former Naval Person himself, now 86. "I shall be staying only a half hour, my dear," said Sir Winston, who had just got over a slight cold. But as he sipped champagne and surveyed the 200 dancers in the ballroom, Sir Winston let his first half hour slip by, then another and most of a third. At 12:20 a.m. he finally kissed his granddaughter good night, steered Lady Churchill into an elevator and headed for home, 57 minutes behind schedule...
...effect of unexpectation. Schoolgirls soon accept the idea that to be married is to be satisfied with life. Schools steer girls away from science and math because "you won't need it." Girls more than ever go to college "not to pursue learning but to learn pursuing." They slip, in the phrase of Anthropologist Margaret Mead, into "a kind of fur-lined domesticity...
...feminine mysteries are essentially inexpressible, and writers who try to express them slip generally into soap opera or a sort of exquisite silliness. Author Godden does neither, and in this film, which clings to her theme and hues to her mood as the clear peel colors and cleaves to a plum, the camera seems at moments to enlarge and lay bare on the screen the inmost, intimate mystery of maturation. Too often the view is obscured by the arabesques of an intricate and suspensefully entertaining plot, but often enough the onlooker is left quietly alone with Actress York...
...possible. Perhaps the non-aligned states like the Russians more than they do the United States and therefore are less disposed to censure Soviet policies. Many of them certainly have good ideological reasons for such a preference. Tito and Castro are avowed communists, and some neutrals with colonial memories slip easily into a Leninist conception of capitalist states as inherently exploitative and aggressive in their foreign policies...