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Among the more inspired bits of rhetoric was Anthropologist Edmund Leach's charge that anti-Marketeers were misty-minded isolationists who showed "the same degree of contact with rational probability as a New Guinea cargo cult." On the other side, angry leftist Playwright John Osborne denounced the EEC as "the last desperate dream of dull, dim tradesmen without vision, imagination or self-respect, feeling for life or history...
Lillian Hellman, Litt.D., playwright. Aware of the ways of the foxes who spoil the harvest, her voice is satiric, uncompromising, compelling...
There is nothing misplaced about that confidence; Essendine, though near farcical in his heterosexuality, is nevertheless Playwright Coward's most detailed self-caricature. The people who dance attendance on him are all parodistically based on people who surrounded Coward when he was at the height of his fame in prewar London. First produced there in 1942, and now revived at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Present Laughter lacks the geometrically perfect craftsmanship of Private Lives and has too little narrative drive to be ranked among the elegant best of Coward's works...
...stress on what can only be called the sadomasochistic implications of Essendine's relationships with his clan could easily spoil the evening. It is much better to let the unbitter truthfulness of the writing steal over one later. Excepting Fairbanks and George Pentecost as a comically clumsy young playwright, the cast, which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense that there is more here than period grace, that this is a piece to be acted, not condescended to. Modern audiences...
...What noted playwright lost his job at NYU when it was learned he had lied about having a Harvard...