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...condition that Benny keep silent. He played anyway, and someone threw a dime at him. Sinatra kicked ice cubes at the audience and got into a staring match with John Wayne. The gaiety, which could hardly have been surpassed at a Forty & Eight Fun Night, continued till...
...describing these tiny embarrass ments, contests of will, vain attempts to please. Author Sarraute puts them under a microscope and painstakingly focuses and refocuses it till they are seen absolutely clearly but magnified a hundred fold. The character-specimens are so hypersensitive to each passing emotion that in real life they would probably need to seek asylum - or take up writing New Realist novels on their own. But Author Sarraute's skillful pressing on the neurotic nerve is bound to awaken shocks of recognition in the persevering reader, suggesting, among other things, that no man is a hero...
...they often brighten it with glints of hate and vary it with an amusing roadblock to the altar-Dick's mother. Zestfully played by Kay Medford, she is a murderously possessive mamma forever jabbering of self-sacrifice, threatening suicide and pleading for a minimum in funerals: "Just wait till Mother's Day, wrap me in a flag, and dump me in the river." With contrasting skill, Paul Lynde plays a teen-ager's father trying to assert himself, first at home, then scene-stealingly...
From there on till near the end, The Best Man chronicles a pretty traditional struggle between a set hero and a set villain, and much of the play's interest lies in the sheer simplicity of this. Despite its election-year coloring, The Best Man is really a hardy perennial in the way it sets ethics against opportunism, statesmanship against careerism, and light against darkness. In the course of the evening, any number of real-life names and topical references crop up. Dinner parties will thrive on arguing who's who, or who's half-who, among...
This helps strengthen his determination not to yield to his infirmity-a resolution not always easy to hold to. "Sometimes," he says, "when I'm ready to leave the office, not till then do I realize that I can't see. But it's a funny thing: I dream with my eyes. And it always comes as a surprise to wake up in the morning and find that...