Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POOR RICHARD. Richard, the poet-charmer on the run from his memories, may not be as engaging as the playwright's ear lier creation, Mary, the wisecracking wife on the brink of divorce, but Jean Kerr's wit keeps the play incisive and amusing...
...THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. Having written novels about the Boer War that fell well short of Winston Churchill's real-life adventures, Cloete now busts loose with the funny story of a philandering journalist who lives it up each day to try to stave off tomorrow...
Edgar and Jean Cahn, in their account of how not to wage war on poverty (based on the New Haven experience), carry the "war" analogy to its logical extreme and come up with some solid insights into deficiencies of the "para-military" approach to poverty. Their thesis is that war on poverty ignores a crucial "civilian perspective." The result of this defect is that programs which in theory are designed to increase self-reliance and independence, in fact tend to "enervate potential leadership," and to prevent criticism and retard innovation in favor of maintaining vested interests and the status...
POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr sacrifices some laughs in treating two serious themes: the capacity to love and the squandering of talent. Still, wit and insight inform this tale of an English poet on an alcoholic sabbatical in New York...
...THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. Having written novels about the Boer War that fell well short of Churchill in adventure, Cloete now busts loose with the funny story of a journalist who lives it up each day to try to stave off tomorrow...