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Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer is an unflaggingly funny drawing-room farce based on a single droll conceit: what might people do and say and discover about each other if they were suddenly left in a total blackout on the evening of a vitally important party? To begin with, this poses a little problem of stagecraft: How do you present actors in the dark and still allow the audience to see them? Simple: by reversing things. When the lights are supposed to be on, the stage is dark; when they are suddenly supposed to go out, the stage blazes with...
Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak quote a White House aide as saying that "90% of what he does is right, and 90% of the way he does it is wrong." Johnson's pettiness and peevishness, his displays of deceit and conceit have been so frequently documented that what was once a nebulous attitude of indifference on the public's part has crystallized into active dislike...
...education of others to the red brick colleges and such new universities as Sussex and Essex. All of this lends credence to a recent howl by an undergraduate magazine that Oxford is "a piece of the medieval world in which few earn their keep and in which idleness, frivolity, conceit, class prejudice, petty politics and corruption are rife...
...reader has any business being amused, or even feeling comfortable, in the company of Peter De Vries. At one irrepressible level, the man masquerades as a humorist, perfectly capable of reeling out one outlandishly felicitous conceit after another. The conceits abound in this book. "Get divorced while you're young," says one character to another. This is not funny. It is in the same key as that timeless anecdote of the Indian victim, trussed and scalped, who is asked bv his saviors if he is in any pain. "Only when I laugh," he says...
...cords that bind the restless elements of the Fifth Republic into a coordinated, going enterprise. Gaullists would claim that a realistic essay of his value to France more than justifies his self-righteousness. Like the late Frank Lloyd Wright, De Gaulle sees no point in concealing his natural conceit...