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...Tenth Man (by Paddy Chayefsky) is something not too frequent in the theater: a genuine theater piece. It at once draws on life and departs from it, and by means of visual and atmospheric effects, of fantasy laced with reality, of prayers interrupted with jokes, it creates its own heightened world. Part of Playwright Chayefsky's purpose in doing this is to cast light on the world of reality, to set up symbolisms, set speculation going. At this more complex level, The Tenth Man fails. But as a theater piece, well staged by Tyrone Guthrie and often well acted...
...scene is a shabby Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Mineola, L.I., and the tenth man is a young lawyer with no faith in religion, or even in life itself, who has been brought in off the street to make a quorum for morning prayers. Except for an aged rabbi, even the elderly Jews who show up largely lack faith; they come out of habit or boredom, or as to a club where they can gossip and wisecrack and argue various isms. One of them brings his 18-year-old granddaughter, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of asylums...
...what it juxtaposes and contrasts-chant and wisecrack, surrealism and photography, insanity and farce, demonology and Freud-The Tenth Man is telling and sharp. And Playwright Chayefsky has an equally good ear for the colloquial speech of his Jews as for their dialectical pomposities. But in spattering its theatrical vignettes with philosophic question marks, The Tenth Man takes on obligations it does not meet. Far from turning fantasy into vision, it fails to save it from sentimentality. Not only are all the play's characters uniformly nice, but exorcism seems a convenient miracle drug, and the happily vanishing young...
Each company pays Flight Safety $750 per pilot for the first year's instruction, $600 for each additional year's refresher course. Ueltschi estimates that Flight Safety's charges are one-tenth of what it would cost a company to maintain sufficient instructors, equipment and flight procedures. In addition, the pilots put in time (cost to the companies: $50 an hour) in a twin-engine translator and a just purchased Convair 340-440 simulator that can simulate every possible flight condition from ice to fire to mechanical malfunction. "There is not a pilot anywhere we could...
Other CCA candidates finished well behind Watson's tenth place showing. Richard E. McLaughlin had around 2,000 votes, some 600 below Watson's final total. Still more CCA candidates trailed McLaughlin...