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...Spot sends Judy Holliday to D'hum, pronounced doom. D'hum is a semi-Tibetan, semitropical country populated in its whimsical, multialtitudinal way mostly by yaks and native girls in hula skirts. It may have seemed droll to cast Judy Holliday as a Peace Corps clown, a lady Jonah anxious to do good out where the East begins, but this musical is as funny as a tumbrel...
...this engaging second novel. Author James Stevenson, 33, displays Marquand's feel for the half rueful, wholly droll confrontation between the really wellborn and those who are merely born to do well. But he is less interested in dynastic decay than in dilettante dilemma. The islanders' big "fight McKinney" meeting bogs down in bickering about whether or not a mole has been gnawing at croquet court number three, and the whole argument becomes entirely academic when a pair of McKinney's bulldozers crash onto the court in the middle of the annual tournament. A hapless adulterer, surprised...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, is pulverizingly funny about a piffling subject-belated fatherhood. As the pater dolorosus, Paul Ford is unimaginably droll...
...vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now, one might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said...
...Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, is pulverizingly funny about a piffling subject-belated fatherhood. As the pater dolorosus, Paul Ford is unimaginably droll...