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...ability, uncommon even in musicians, to identify any isolated musical tone without reference to some previously sounded note...
Trust Mark Twain. Atkinson writes about the theater with a level eye and uncommon candor: "Basically, the Broadway theater is not an art, but an unsuccessful form of high-pressure huckstering ... It is not developing playwrights, actors or directors. It is doing the best it can to commit suicide." And on Broadway first-nighters: "They bring nothing into the theater except shallow, distracted minds and tired emotions . . . they have nothing to give. They are the unburied dead, brushed, combed, richly dressed, and expensively embalmed...
...Hawley was carrying what seemed to be a normal baby in an abnormal place -outside the abdomen. The fetus had slipped through a weak spot in the abdominal wall, left by an incision made years ago for a gall-bladder operation. Such cases are uncommon, but not unknown. Far more uncommon was the way Mrs. Hawley had carried the baby without medical attention...
Dealing with uncommon insight into the problem of the displaced white settler, "North Forty" mirrors forty years in the turbulent history of the Snopes family and its flight for survival. Pioneer settlers, the Snopes are forced to sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress...
Actress Ritter's uncommon talent is for the common touch. She wields it this time as the down-to-earth mother of a social-climbing junior executive (John Lund). When Lund marries a diplomat's daughter (Gene Tierney) and lands in her circle of snobs, he cannot bring himself to break the news that his mother slings hash in a Jersey City hamburger joint. He stays tongue-tied when Bride Tierney hires Mother Ritter as the family cook, keeps his secret even after his uppity mother-in-law (Miriam Hopkins) moves in and starts loading his mother with...