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...Circle Repertory Theater Co., The Sea Horse is the third small triumph in a row, following the still-running When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? and The Hot I Baltimore. In the past couple of seasons C.R.T.C. has be come the most fecund off-off-Broadway group. Each of these productions made a successful transition to off-Broadway, a dramatic terrain that no longer bustles with the creative vitality it once...
...himself an outsider. He was a compulsive worker who produced more than 230 magazine pieces before he was 40-plus four novels, a volume of essays and the book that made his reputation, Mark Twain's America. He was capable of hacking out 30,000 words in a fecund week of writing romantic serial fiction for the Saturday Evening Post under the pen name "John August," scribbling in panic before the "manias, depression and blue funks" as well as the living expenses that pursued him. (DeVoto had a fondness for domestic help, new Buicks and private education.) This "literary...
...settled down to one of the most determined, self-conscious and prolific assaults on posterity ever attempted by an American writer. The strategy was correct-most of the great social novelists have required many long volumes to explore the intricacies of how it all works. The results, alas, were fecund-rate...
...more the farm of the artist than the playground of the politician. By punning, which probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance, and so did Homer and Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff the pun until it shone like art. Says the bleeding Mercutio: "Ask for me tomorrow...
...story is rather scampi in detail." Conditions last week would have been even worse except for the temporary absence of our champion punster, Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer. In self-defense. Kanfer observes that puns show up in the most ancient writings, and "what was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare...