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...both the author and the performers are in better form. New-Found-Land is in some ways even more of a trifle than Dirty Linen--it's essentially two monologues, one delivered by a senile minister about his youthful meeting with Lloyd George, the other by a young civil servant about his dreams of America. John Straub as Bernard, the codger, steals the show with simple, somnolent nods of his head--a note of comic understatement other members of BARC could learn from...
...soon as the chief conservationist's venomous reaction leaked to local newspapers, environmental groups rallied angrily to Dodd's defense. One such spokesman charged Andrus with "flagrant abuse of power" and "harassment" of "a dedicated public servant." Another point embarrassing to the Secretary: he is known as a regular diner at Dominique's. Last week the kitchen got too hot for Andrus, and he reinstated Dodd. As for Dominique's, it now serves the plentiful, unendangered diamondback rattler...
...Letters; the other characters dance a contorted jig about it, A. B. Cook III and his descendant A. B. Cook VI send their unborn children endless genealogical accounts of the family's intrigues, centering around the War of 1812. Jerome Bonaparte Bray, part dictator, part human fly, part servant of a computer, plots a Second American Revolution. Todd Andrews--still alive, despite The Floating Opera's denouement--writes to his dead father contemplating a second suicide. And Horner sends letters to himself, listing events that occurred on the day of posting as part of his "anniversary theory of history...
...urged Harvard students to "use your talent to help your nation devise systems which will make government a better servant of the people...
...Novel. It told of a teen-age boy growing up among the scientists at Los Alamos. N. Mex., as they calculated their way toward the atomic bomb. Here the author sets his sights backward by 100 years to spoof the pre-Darwinian notion of nature as the beneficent servant...