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The playwrights did not create the character of Dulcy. Bearing a name taken from Don Quixote, Dulcy was the brainchild of the columnist F.P.A. (Franklin P. Adams) and first came to life on the editorial pages of the New York Tribune. The dramatists then simply took Dulcy and fashioned a...
Focal character of The Naked and the Dead is Lieut. Robert Hearn (Cliff Robertson), a wealthy, well-educated ex-playboy who has been taken as an aide by General Cummings (Raymond Massey) during the invasion of a Pacific island. The general coddles Hearn as he would a favorite son-and...
The authors, who now live in New Jersey but still profess to be wary of retribution by Spanish agents, have taken the undoubted truths that Franco's regime is corrupt and oppressive, that the fishers and farmers are appallingly poor, and that the Spanish church is the most inflexible...
Novelist Powell, who was at Eton with Henry Green and George Orwell, at Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, proves that he is not out of place in such company. He is by any standard an important comic if not satiric novelist. Unfortunately infatuated with detail, Powell sometimes seems to obey a...
NOVELIST ALFRED JARRY (1873-1907) was the inventor of a tongue-in-cheek philosophy named 'Pataphysics ("the science of the realm beyond metaphysics") and creator of the famed fictional character Doctor Faustroll, who is "born full-grown at the age of 63, navigates unendingly across dry land in a...