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...plays that have received the most critical acclaim and a generous measure of audience acceptance have been about the dying, the grotesque, the brutalized and the desolate. The Elephant Man, winner of this year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award, features a freak who is mon strous, if also in eloquent human pain. Whose Life Is It Anyway? mounts a torch of a brain on the calcified column of a car-wrecked body. In these and other plays of the same tenor, there is much brightly sar donic humor. But what sort of society is it that derives...
...chorus of commiseration. As Big Ben tolled every minute for one hour (a gesture normally reserved for deaths in the royal family), Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said: "There are times when the mind and the heart stand still." From Sir Winston Churchill came a statement: "This mon strous act has taken from us a great statesman and a wise and valiant...
...mixmaster. Strategically, he argued, a force of 25 Polaris vessels cruising Europe's shallow coastal waters could not easily be destroyed by Soviet submarines or aircraft. Said Ricketts: "Each addi tional weapons system enhances the credibility of other systems." But R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Slessor called it "mon strous military nonsense," and many other British defense officials agreed...
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ISLAND IN THE SUN (538 pp.)-Alec Waugh- Farrar, Strous & Cudahy...