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...trouble with Heterosexual is that the play does not rise to its climactic moment but runs down to it like an unwound clock. As comedy, it is fitful; as a social comment, it is fretful, without being particularly penetrating or fresh. Considering how talky the evening is, Burgess Meredith's direction wings it along at a dancing pace with frenetic motion and effervescent, semi-psychedelic lighting. It may be an ironic reflection of the health, resilience and confidence of the U.S. spirit that the play, despite transparent distaste for American capitalism, was supported, promoted, and frequently applauded...
DEAR MR. GABLE (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Burgess Meredith narrates a chronicle of the life of Clark Gable, comparing the real man with the reel...
What with Burgess and Maclean, Gordon Lonsdale and George Blake, Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, Britain's postwar years have often seemed to be a nonstop series of spy scandals. None of them ever produced the fascination and national soul-searching, however, that have marked the case of Harold ("Kim") Philby, the Communist double agent who became chief of British counterespionage operations against Russia. After four months of coverage by the British press, Philby's remarkable exploits are now the subject of a debate about the nature and value of the British Establishment, the traditional ruling class...
...GRAND TOUR with introduction by Anthony Burgess and Francis Haskell. 138 pages. Crown...
...travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English," says William Hazlitt. On the other hand, in his splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases of Northern history, no man could be considered cultivated if he had not gone out to engage the art, philosophy and manners of the Latin countries." Housebound in their in creasingly tight little island, the English, with a curtailed foreign-travel allowance, could afford...