Word: polonius
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...meantime, Comfort suggests that those over 65 stay active and reject leisure ("Leisure is a con") and retirement ("Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire"). At times, Comfort outrambles Polonius: "Be a little cautious of reliance on hobbies." "Late in life it's a good idea to aim at a trouble-free hair style." The telephone "is the most important single technological resource of later life...
...Wild a Dream proves that this ironic network Polonius was veri-fiably young once, a hard-edged radical and a complete stranger to the pundit's chair. First published 30 years ago, Sevareid's precocious autobiography was then compared with The Education of Henry Adams. It wound up around fifth on the bestseller charts, making the New York Times 1946 list of "Ten Best Books of the Year." Three decades later, young Sevareid's memoir does not seem quite in the Adams class. Yet it remains an important book with a new kind of timeliness...
...Dean Martin presiding at a "roast"; Andrea Marcovicci plays Ophelia like a stewardess in search of an Upper East Side singles bar; and if Ruby Dee's Gertrude is capable of loving either Claudius or Hamlet, it will certainly be news to them. Only Larry Gates, doubling as Polonius and the First Gravedigger, emerges from this fiasco with a modicum of merit...
...WORDS, WORDS, words," one might moan, like Hamlet to Polonius, about George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance. Nearly three hours of Shavian dialogue, however diverting, is a formidable experience. That it's also a pleasant one at the Loeb is a tribute to the author and the production...
...there was, for example, a desirable quality called bravery, and on one side of it cowardice, and on the other, foolhardiness. There was pride, and on one side of it boasting, and on the other, excessive modesty. This sort of cataloguing, while admirable, soon begins sounding as platitudinous as Polonius ? morality by characterization...