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Friends & Traitors. In Officers and Gentlemen the old Waugh savagery makes mincemeat of the Halberdiers. Trimmer, the cowardly leader of a commando raid that was organized for publicity purposes, is puffed into a phony hero and sent on a tour of factories to bolster civilian mo rale. Guy and a group of fellow commandos are sent on an operation in Crete, where three of them desert (including the commanding officer), and one Waugh original known as Ludovic murders two of his comrades-in-arms...
...need to have, and is frequently devoid of, that quality which is indispensable in the statesman-practical wisdom. In the world of the intellectual, ideas meet with ideas, and anything goes that is presented cleverly and with assurance. In the political world, ideas meet with facts which make mincemeat of the wrong ideas and throw the pieces in the ashcan of history...
...Chet Boulris, who played one of his finest games in a Crimson uniform, and Charlie Ravenel, who suddenly discovered that he could pass, after all, the varsity made mincemeat of Cornell's highly rated defense...
More pertinent is what the big giveaway show has done, or is in the process of doing, to the TV medium. It has made mincemeat of its two competitors on Tuesdays at 10 p.m., E.D.T. (NBC's long-reliable Truth or Consequences, ABC's The Name's the Same). It has persuaded CBS to take on its creator and owner, gimmick-loaded Louis (Quiz Kids, Down You Go, Conversation) Cowan as a top-level executive. It has set network executives to brooding darkly over the question of what The Question will do this autumn to such giants...
...minor weakness of King of Hearts is that its cracks come with a slightly too metallic and rat-tat-tat regularity. The more serious weakness is that what little story there is should additionally-in a play that makes mincemeat of clichés-use so many plot cliches itself. Where the wit is so true and the satire so topical, it seems a pity that such sharp pins should jab, in the end, little more than a pincushion...