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According to Kenneth Tynan, the English dramatic critic who spent last weekend as a visiting lion at Winthrop House, a critic's specific opinions are less important than the attitudes that underlie them. In Tynan's case, private conversation reinforces the impression given by his articles in the New Yorker, where he is guest critic, that his basic attitude toward the theatre is a deeply serious one. In a profession populated largely by somnambulistic hacks, his Shavian emphasis on the relation of drama to life is rare and valuable. But his seriousness never declines into solemnity; his awareness...
Getting up to go to the reception in his honor (the main duty of a visiting lion is to be thrown to the people), Tynan turned and said by way of valediction: "If you write anything about me do say that all these remarks are based on the assumption that there will be any theatre or any anything a couple of years from now." If offered the choice, he said, he would prefer to see the destruction of every work of art in the world rather than a "preventative" war with Russia. "I don't think any of the arts...
Willie's world is designed for the three-to seven-year-old child. Older fans are welcome, but mostly as reading aides and accompanists for the songs. Artist Friedman deliberately draws Willie and his pals -Silly Sue, Moisevitch the Lion, Candy Cow, who gives striped peppermint milk -with a simplicity that his followers can copy. Willie's adventures are unsullied by the usual comic staples of crime, violence and disrespect to elders...
...fledgling Novelist Stone is content with a pat childhood trauma. His portrait of a demagogue is colorful but not colorfast: character blurs into caricature, sentiment into soap opera, speech into speeches. But whatever his novel's shortcomings, Author Stone will doubtless enjoy his forthcoming reign as the undergraduate lion of Harvard Yard...
Last January Clutton-Brock left St. Faith's, moved on to work on an agricultural project in barren, lion-haunted Bechuanaland. But as soon as he and his wife returned to Southern Rhodesia in February for a vacation, he was arrested and held without trial under emergency laws prompted by the Nyasaland riots (TIME, March 9 et seq.). During his imprisonment, the Southern Rhodesian government offered freedom and free passage back to England if he would give up his Southern Rhodesian citizenship, but he refused...