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Pilobolus is a word so fine and fat as it rolls off the tongue that, like a kitten or a May morning, it needs no meaning, but in fact it has two. It is the name of a light-sensitive fungus that grows on horse dung-"a rather bawdy little...
Tom Prewitt is cold, ironical, and very effective in his role as Dick Savage, the bright young businessman under Moorehouse's wing. Prewitt's greatest assets are his insincere smile and deceptively flat voice. Where Moorehouse is soft, Prewitt's Savage is tough and pragmatic. Somehow he will survive the...
Underlying Chaucer's sturdy, balanced genius, Gardner sees a characteristically medieval conviction that the world made sense. Chaucer viewed man as a "responsible, moral agent in a baffling but orderly universe." Yet his finest work was full of ironical laughter; a "canterbury tale," in medieval slang, was a lie...
This shallow breathing occurs during a doleful evening in which Clara and three other skinless neurotics are bullied in a desultory way by a thick-skinned fifth person, Clara's frightful mother Laura. The other characters are Clara's drunken stepfather; her uncle, an exhausted, ironical pederast; and...
In a "broadminded" community such as Harvard, with its international reputation of "liberalism," I have quickly found out that these terms apply only when the cause is a leftist one. "Freedom of speech" is a beautiful ideal, so long as this right is reserved for such groups as the New...