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Rashomon (by Fay and Michael Kanin) is essentially a stage remake of the eight-year-old Japanese film classic, and some of the charm and power of the film has spilled away in transit. Culled originally from two short stories by Japan's late mordant satirist, Akutagawa, Rashomon poses a philosophic question that means all things to all men: What is truth...
Died. Lady Beerbohm (Elisabeth Jung-mann), 61, widow, second wife and former secretary of British Caricaturist-Satirist-Drama Critic Sir Max Beerbohm, who married her in 1956, a month before he died at 83; of a heart ailment; in Zoagli, Italy...
Died. Dame Rose Macaulay, 77, British novelist (Potterism, The World My Wilderness, The Towers of Trebizond), essayist, satirist; of a heart attack soon after signing a telegram from British writers to the Union of Soviet Writers protesting the expulsion of Nobel Prizewinner Boris Pasternak (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; in London. Spinster daughter of a Cambridge don and distant kin to Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dame Rose was raised in Italy, where her mother had been sent for her health. The sunny freedom of a girlhood on the Ligurian coast prepared her for anything but the spiny conventionalities of the traditional education...
...ADMEN (Simon & Schuster; $4] is a sadly unsatiric novel by Satirist Shepherd Mead, onetime vice president of Benton & Bowles, who was wackily horrifying about the pitchman's trade in The Big Ball of Wax. This time the author does not try for laughs, instead achieves a notable first: a novel whose characters will have to be deepened before they are translated to the screen...
...satirist then declared that Americans have become members of "domesticated wolfpacks." Vidal continued, "We have lost the picture of solitary man standing up against other men and the facts of his creation." Not only unable to stand alone, Americans are also affected by "a tolerance so profound it is akin to terror," which stultifies the artist...