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...worth caring about The folks in The Floating Lightbulb are real enough; like anyone, they screw around, they stutter, and they cry. But there is nothing special about them, and it takes too much effort to care. Without making the play funny enough to spark our empathy through laughter, Allen leaves us flat. The play, its characters, and the emotions it hints at go nowhere...
...Winter Haven (one of God's waiting rooms), where the old gray heads in the grandstand seem to go back to Abner Doubleday, baseball has gone back to baseball. Last season was interrupted for 50 games by shrill lawyers and labor leaders, and the grace note of laughter never quite returned. Some wondered if it ever would. But the talk this spring is once again of hopeful rookies and aging veterans, an endless line streaming in and straggling out. Born hitters who can do it all and hurt you in a lot of ways. Stylish lefthanders who throw aspirin...
...Yale opponents' argument that drug abuse proves society's failure to adapt to change. "We are still waiting for their clear evidence of social breakdown," he says, "and all we get is 'drugs.' " "I wish we would get drugs," chirps an audience member. There is laughter and desk bashing. Yale's Brian Peterson tries anecdote. "I can't adapt to Reagan," he says, "I can't adapt to the fact that my federal scholarship money is gone...
...Welfare parasite!" comes the cry from somewhere, and again laughter splatters the debate. The gibes are mostly among friends. "What I truly value about the circuit," says Smith, "is meeting the different people." A quarter of the competitors are women (although only one will finish near the top here). Are there romantic gambols? "What?" asks an incredulous Peter Shearer of Princeton. "You think I just do this for the logic...
...Waugh, the critic of modernism and the Age of the Common Man: "He was aware of a new voice in his inner counsels... a voice, as it were, from a more civilized age as from the chimney corner in mid-Victorian times there used to break sometimes the sardonic laughter of grandmama, relic of Regency, a clear, outrageous, entirely self-assured disturber among the high and muddled thought of her whiskered descendants...