Word: madcaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motor cycle" long before anyone heard of Lolita. When these characters converge in the back corridors or the main dining hall of Serenity House, they strike continuous comic sparks. At times the characters-and the book-show the strain of trying to make every moment a madcap one. But most of the time Author Kronenberger-biographer (Marlborough's Duchess), social commentator (Company Manners), novelist (Grand Right and Left), and TIME theater critic for 23 years-keeps the repartee fresh and furiously flying. Moreover, he makes the reader accept his lunatic world on its own farcical terms-no mean achievement...
Like Method Acting. The editor-once described as looking like a Scots Unitarian impersonating Mephistopheles-is perfectly matched to his task, and Madcap Mac is balanced by Dour Donald. Parody, he makes clear, though a laughing matter, is serious. Writes Macdonald: "I enjoy it as an intuitive kind of literary criticism, shorthand for what 'serious' critics must write out at length. It is Method Acting, since a successful parodist must live himself, imaginatively, into his parody...
Died. Earl Kemp Long, 65, madcap brother of Louisiana's Huey Long and a three-time Governor of the state; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, La. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. This sprightly chronicle of the madcap Mitford family (one of the six daughters was generally regarded as Hitler's girl; the author herself married a leftist nephew of Winston Churchill) reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, revealing a class in trouble with history and with itself...
Best Reading Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. This sprightly chronicle of the madcap Mitford family (one of the six daughters was generally regarded as Hitler's girl; another became the wife of a Fascist; the author herself married a Leftist nephew of Winston Churchill) reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, revealing a class in trouble with history and with itself...