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...more mature about these things, so when this play, the work of a young Englishman named Tom Stoppard, showed up at the Shubert as part of a post-Broadway tour, I went to the theatre cool and detached, as if I were visiting the scene of a long forgotten love affair. But theatrical love affairs, like that other kind, can be suddenly rekindled. Sure enough, I left the Shubert ready to go back again the next night...
...Lunar Caustic, Lowry uses his secondary characters effectively to expand upon and control the main autobiographical figure, William Plantagenet, a young Englishman and a drunk, who is committed temporarily to Bellevue Hospital in New York. In the central conversation between Plantagenet and the Doctor, Lowry plays the Doctor's practical, mindlessly psychologistic comments against Plantagenet's solipsism. At the same time, however, the Doctor's words serve as a kind of objective warning against the distortions implicit in Lowry's habit of creating only autobiographical characters...
...some questions." He then asked, in effect, for the Europeans in the audience to advise him on how to do his new job. For about a half hour, Kissinger, a symbol of American power, sat by the podium and diligently took notes while a German, a Frenchman and an Englishman tried to define the problems of U.S. foreign policy and offer some solution...
...theoretician. He was, wrote old School Friend Cyril Connolly recently, "a political animal [who] could not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry." Though Orwell was a socialist, the metaphysical system underlying Marxian socialism meant nothing to him, and he had an empirical Englishman's distrust of other philosophical abstractions; to him, the existentialist Sartre was a windbag. But he also held an immense advantage over English intellectuals in politics who, by comparison, seem like dishonest children...
...these volumes, it is the nonpolitical pieces, diaries, letters and odd bits on diverse subjects that most hold the mind. Orwell was a classic Englishman, full of quirks. This shines through every line he wrote, whether on the puzzling sex life of the common toad who "salutes the coming of spring [and] after his long fast, has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent," or on the "modern habit of some writers who describe lovemaking in detail. . .It is something that future generations will look back on as we do on things like...