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...also lacks the usual police reluctance to use brainy officers: this fall he expects to have 50 recent graduates of Ivy League colleges on the streets, including the Harvard-educated son of Writer Ring Lardner. Most of them were recruited by one of the nation's first such cops, David Durk (see box, page...
...4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, nothing is sacred because everyone is scared-of the incipient madness that seeps back from the front. Ring Lardner Jr.'s overlapping Catch-22-caliber scenes devour congruity as war devours youth. In the abbatoir of the operating room a surgeon saws off a leg while he begs a nurse to scratch his nose. The unit's greatest nurse chaser, Dentist Painless Waldowski, decides that Don Juanism is a cover-up for homosexuality. Better never than latent, he decides after a nontumescent night, and instantly opts for the Right Thing: suicide...
Essentially, however, M.A.S.H. is not an actor's movie. Its furious humor arises from the collaboration of Lardner and Airman, who swing the scenario like a baseball bat. Not infrequently, they shatter the wrong objectives; a parody of the Last Supper, for example, is utterly without wit or point. But most of the time the film is a moon reflecting the sun of battle. War assaults taste, language, sense itself. So do the soldiers who fight it. So do the doctors who aid the soldiers. So does M.A.S.H., animated with a dangerously robust sick humor and a highly civilized...
...Dickson's writing. It is, rather, a natural by-product of his choice of materials: social and political traumatics in the Court of Charles II. Historical subjects are by now the traditional matter of Phyllis Anderson Prize plays, of which this effort is one, sharing an award with James Lardner's Come the Revolution. There is, or has been, a certain sense in this tradition, for historical references can lend any play a certain measure of unearned dramatic scale. Such loans, however, are called in early, and the courtiers and courtesans of Monmouth spend fast and free. The play, with...
...Post was intended for weekend reading, but nobody waited that long. Dad plunged right into one of Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al baseball stories. As soon as she could get the magazine away from him, Mom settled comfortably with a mystery serial by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which inevitably began, "Had I but known. . ." The kids giggled at Little Lulu's cartoon antics. And of course everybody could enjoy the latest Scattergood Baines episode or grin wryly at the gas-station attendant on the cover - absentmindedly ogling a pretty woman driver while the gas tank...