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Many televiewers wince, talk back or leave the room during TV commercials. But not earnest, 41-year-old Dick Stark. He sits on the edge of his chair, wide-eyed and alert to every move and inflection of the TV salesman. His interest is professional and his appraisal is that of a connoisseur. For when he is not listening to commercials, Dick Stark is delivering them. He sells Chesterfield cigarettes on TV's Perry Como Show and Gangbusters, Amm-i-dent toothpaste on Danger, Camay soap on radio's Pepper Young's Family. "Television has been good...
Much of the credit for an enjoyable production of this difficult play must go to the perceptive direction of Eric Bentley, who never lets the action drag for a moment. Lester Polakov's set also was effective, combining the elegance of an claborate town house with the stark atmosphere of a Chamber of Inquisition...
...three poems suffer from the traditional esoterism of Advocate verse. The stark emotion George Kelly tries to get across in "Lament" bogs down in stilted verbiage, and Robert Layzer's "Absence" so snares itself in its own vague analogies that it drifts into incomprehensibility. "Southwest," by Charles Neuhauser, is better, particularly for the crisp language used to describe a desert tourist town...
...with an acute sense of rhythm, unerring breath control, and a versatile, disciplined voice. Phyllis Curtin possessed all these, as well as what appeared to be a profound knowledge of the work's structure. Her intimate style is well suited to the darkly lyrical numbers, and in expressing the stark misery of a song like the Pieta, she sounded desolate, cerie, and thoroughly convincing...
...juniors, are David L. Stark, an economics student from San Mateo, California and Lowell House; Martin J. Wohl, American history concentrator from Brooklyn and Eliot House; and Irving Yoskowitz, American History and Literature student from New York and Lowell House...