Word: inquisitioner
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Speiser's portrayal of Lenny at his last obscenity trial in New York in '65 is devastating. Haggard, hounded and profoundly paranoid, he speaks first to an imaginary listener outside the courtroom and then to the judge. Speiser has gleaned and woven together from Bruce's last performances an account...
I mention the Amerasia case not only because it is another McCarthy-era mystery that time has not solved, but also because Kubek's contribution, along with Cedric Belfrage's The American Inquisition and Lately Thomas's When Even Angels Wept, forms a perfect Trinity of Ignorance: See No Evil...
The American Inquisition is written with all the attention to style and accuracy of a political flyer. The prose is so sodden with self-righteousness and heavy irony that only the faithful (i.e., "heretics") might hope to find it tolerable. And Belfrage has also retained that annoying C.P. habit of...
Hecht said yesterday that Lowell had made a major progression in theme since "Lord Weary's Castle," but praised him for maintaining a sense of continuity in his verse. "'Lord Weary's Castle' was clearly a religious book of verse, whereas his current books are not," Hecht said yesterday. "But...
Monty Python's Flying Circus started on a comedy show on BBC-TV and have begun recording their material only in the last two years. Their first two records, "Another Monty Python Record," and "Monty Python's Previous Record" contained now-classic routines like "Spam," "The Death of Mary Queen...