Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South House, which always provides a good laugh, did it again when its plywood and oil drum craft simply folded up, sandwiching several hardy souls in the middle...
...anonymous author of Berlinguer and the Professor (published last October as Berlinguer e il Professore and recently translated into English by John Shepley) has chosen to laugh. The novel, wildly acclaimed even before publication, describes the "historic compromise" that is imminent in the actual elections to be held in Italy in June--the formation of a government in which the communists have a share of power...
...PROFESSOR has been translated into American not merely because it involves our secretary of state, but because it is designed for American intellectual "liberals" of the sort that have been following Italian politics with Joseph Kraft in The New York Times. The book caters to those who can laugh sarcastically at a description of Kissinger "seeing red" when he hears from the CIA that the communists are gaining in popularity, but who fear the reality of the communists' growing power. It caters to those who themselves have the stereotyped "Italian" view of politics: no illusions as to the nature...
...most remarkable feature. He is a man of many parts, but he has given heart, mind, soul and smile to winning the presidency. He has enlisted wife, children, sister, aunt, mother and sometimes God and Reinhold Niebuhr. There is almost no part of Carter left over for a real laugh. If Scoop Jackson has held a conversation longer than three minutes recently on a subject other than himself and politics, it has not been recorded...
...British aristocratic leisure class and his characters were reflections of his own lifestyle. These days the stock medium for these characters is satire. Their frivolous preoccupation with style and good form seems merely ludicrous. They are difficult to identify with so it now seems more appropriate to laugh at them rather than with them. But despite these changes in attitude, Present Laughter is still an effective comedy because Coward created his characters with performance in mind. His parts provide a rare opportunity for actors to mug and posture shamelessly...