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While not so lively or lightly spun as its predecessor, Herself Surprised (TIME, Sept. 20), To Be a Pilgrim has a vibrant life. Together, the two novels form part of a first-rate trilogy covering 20th-century English manners & morals in a half-serious, half-picaresque vein; the last and best of the three, The Horse's Mouth, has yet to be published...
About ten years ago, Clifford Odets, having apparently written himself out of the Bronx, went to Hollywood. This was a cause for dismay among the people who hailed him as the Golden Boy of the Thirties, the man who brought a fresh, now and vibrant voice to the theater, a voice that spoke out for the underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance...
What helps make a Tallulah filibuster spellbinding is the famed voice that can bounce a whisper off the balcony walls. Husky and vibrant (partly the product of childhood croupiness), it can shift without notice from a sigh in a rain barrel to a hoot in a hollow ("Are you ever taken for a man on the phone?" Columnist Earl Wilson once asked her. "No," she snapped...
...Full and Vibrant Tones...
After dispensing with the Communists, Dewey took up social security and aid to veterans. He scolded the New Deal, his eyes bugging archly, for not passing an adequate social security law. In full and vibrant tones he said that above all we must have "friendly" veterans' hospitals...