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...Importance of Being Earnest," presented last night by the Radcliffe Idler, is Oscar Wilde at his witty and fantastic best. Based on a trivial pun, the play is, nevertheless, almost perfection of its kind. The present production, sympathetically directed by Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, shows that for all its fifty years, it is still excellent entertainment...
Double Take. Alike in talent, they are poles apart in temperament. Prankish, pun-loving Grouse is easygoing, Lindsay something of a hypochondriac. Warns Grouse: "Don't ever ask Howard how he feels, because he'll tell you." Lindsay likes a drink; Grouse swore off "in the middle of a beer" nearly 30 years ago. Lindsay loves the country; Grouse loathes it. Lindsay is as nattily dressed as a floorwalker, Grouse as rumpled as an insomniac's bed. Lindsay is too scared of first nights to go, Grouse too curious to stay away...
...moving all the time. The motion of a single object cannot be measured . . . except as it moves in relation to another. . . Relative is the key word. . . .") Said Fadiman, explaining the fourth dimension (time) : "Motion and the passage of light take time, [therefore] time is a dimension of measurement itself." Pun Pudding. These tiny pills of theory were carefully concealed in a pudding of puns, skits and music. Human Adventure, setting out to be both entertaining and educational about Einstein, was only partly instructive, not wholly entertaining. Fadiman tried to give his hearers a glimmer of the theory's importance...
...cook in the monastery adjoining the Cathedral that the choirmaster, a Christian Brother, had been storing bombs in his cell. Irrepressible Bogotanos, recalling how another of the Brothers had been blown up last February when a bomb exploded in his pocket, dubbed the order "Cuerpo de Bomberos" (a pun, meaning either Fire Department or Bombers' Corps...
Somoza makes it his business to turn his effervescent charm full-faucet on U.S. diplomats and officials. James Bolton Stewart, now U.S. Ambassador in Nicaragua, speaks up stoutly for Somoza's "stable" administration. Tacho, who likes a pun, has amiably referred to the Ambassador as "my steward...