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...lacks one. But only his humor and his hero are Playwright Peterson's own; they function inside a framework, indeed a virtual cage of cliches. Where Spencer is typical but real, his experiences are merely trite, and sometimes clumsy and protracted. What makes Take a Giant Step uncommon in terms of Negro life-its middle-class outlook-is precisely what makes it over-familiar in terms of adolescence...
...Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House) and into a waiting limousine one day last week walked five members of a visiting Soviet trade mission, beaming with uncommon good will. After two months of dickering, they had signed a treaty with the Argentines under which the two countries will work out a barter exchange of Argentina's agricultural products (mainly linseed oil and hides) for Soviet petroleum, coal, iron, steel, precision instruments, pipe, rails, rolling stock, axles and tires. Goods worth $150 million are supposed to change hands-if both sides deliver. In addition, the Communists agreed to extend...
...malignant disease which killed Senator Robert A. Taft was of a fairly uncommon but not rare type.* Its characteristics: the extensive spread through the patient's body, and the speed with which it advanced...
...currently 29) who spend three years at the Haus, sharing the community life of the students. A third aspect of the program brings industrialists into contact with workers as Christian equals to air their problems together in the common context of the Gospel. In such gatherings it is not uncommon for Roman Catholics (with diocesan permission) to meet and pray with Protestants...
Kokoschka finds such versatility all too uncommon these days. Everyone tends to become uniform-either abstract or academic. "In the U.S.," he grumbles, "people can't get jobs unless they paint abstractions. It is that constant repetition! You have to drink Budweiser beer, you have to drink Budweiser beer. After two days I had to drink Budweiser beer-and I don't even like beer." Says Kokoschka, waving an abstract catalogue: "This man makes patches for the pants. I say man is a magical thing, full of magical powers. This cold-way art leads to evil-it makes...