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...much more aware of his gestures and inflections than of the poet-king he was supposed to be. Why, for instance, was the death scene staged like a ballet? And if Richard was a minor poet, who could be fascinated by Bolingbroke's tired pun on "shadow," why does everything come to him so automatically? Why does he never stop to think of the next line...
...versifier (and editor of an early rhyming dictionary) greeted Frost as a professional colleague and earned his ire. "Would he claim equality with me?" fumed Frost to Untermeyer, "more claimant than clement." With T. S. Eliot, Frost could not resist a further pun. "We both like to play," he wrote, "but I like to play euchre. He likes to play Eucharist...
...protest your remarks about the late Clifford Odets [Aug. 23]. An important American playwright deserves more than a perfunctory dismissal with a tastelessly exhumed pun...
...varnish has also grown yellow on Langaon Mitchell's dialogue, which while occasionally clever and biting, cannot quite explain away all the foolishness of the plot. Practically every line is an epigram or pun of sorts ("Our marriage was a wager," "The grace before the soup is not as good as the dinner," "marry-go-round"), and this, too, is hard to sustain for three hours...
...TIME, May 17). In a rare joke with his audience, Solal risked a Franco-American pun last year by composing a parody of his own music and calling it Mystère Solal...