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Speaking last week to an earnest audience of some 400 females at a Manhattan conference on women and management, pear-shaped Columnist Art Buchwald declared with a straight face that "I'm as sympathetic as anyone to Women's Lib. I know from personal experience what it's like to be treated as a sex object." The interesting thing, Buchwald said later, is that nobody laughed...
...Buchwald, L.H.D., humorist. In our time of turgid seriousness, ponderous wit, and frantic promotion, you have
...other six protestors received sentences similar to Buchwald's, although two of the six have fines...
Claudio S. Buchwald '71, who was severed from Harvard for his participation in the painters' helpers demonstration last November, received 30 days in the House of Correction for assault and battery on a Cambridge policeman and a $100 fine for disturbing the peace...
...Since Buchwald never opts to go all out for satire or all out for farce, the play seems to be stalemated in a diplomatic buffer zone between the two. In straight allegories, the characters go by general labels such as the Pilgrim, the Fool, the Saint. In Buchwald's comic allegory, the characters are similarly walking labels: the Hawk (a syndicated Washington columnist), the Ambassador, the Pentagon Man, the C.I.A. Man, the A.I.D. Man, the Local Prince. Stereotypes do contain truths, and they serve a playwright well, but only 50% of the way. The other 50% comes from...