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Beyond the Fringe. Recipient of a rarely accorded Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle, Beyond the Fringe is the finest revue in years. Four antic and articulate young Englishmen rip the comic stuffing out of nuclear defense, Shakespearean theatrics, and glibly patronizing...
Crimson runners competing against the Englishmen will include Hamlin and Ed Meehan in the mile, Bill Crain in the two-mile, John Ogden and Keith Chiappa in the 830-yard run, and Gage McAfee in the quarter mile...
...extreme repugnance of the typical reader to Hitler is of course exploited in Russell's illustration. Yet one must separate the good effects of a belief from the goodness or evil of the entity described. During the bombing of London, few Englishmen could have applauded the existence of Hitler. If the War Office had chosen not to believe that Hitler existed, how- ever, the counter-attack against Germany would have been seriously hampered. To discover whether the effects of believing in the existence of anything are good, one must consider the consequences of disbelief. Blithe disbelief in Hitler would have...
...trouble lay in the rigidity of their principles. Educated Englishmen, Whig or Tory, believed in laissez faire, the classic economic theory of a free economy. But this mercantile theory led to absurdities when applied to Ireland's pre-mercantile economy. "The fanatical faith ... in the operation of natural causes," says Woodham-Smith, "was carried to such a length that in the midst of one of the major famines of history, the government was perpetually nervous of being too good to Ireland and of corrupting the Irish people by kindness, and so stifling the virtues of self-reliance and industry...
...five menservants; middle-class ladies in their 90s could boast that they had never made a pot of tea in their lives, a wealthy Englishman had a Frenchman to stir his soup, another Frenchman to comb his hair, an Italian to make his pastry, and half a dozen Englishmen to iron his Times, and his wife had a Frenchwoman to powder her back and an Englishman to carry her prayer book...