Word: tynan
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DIED. Kenneth Tynan, 53, English drama critic and writer, whose astringently elegant, epigrammatic prose stirred controversy and swayed opinions on both sides of the Atlantic; of emphysema; in Santa Monica, Calif. He cut a precocious figure at Oxford, and by age 27 was drama critic of the London Observer. Admitting that his aim was to "rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds," he championed new playwrights (Osborne, Wesker) whose work undermined drawing-room gentility and reinforced "the umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world." For ten years, starting in 1963, Tynan served...
NONFICTION: Maugham, Ted Morgan Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook * Show People, Kenneth Tynan * The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger * The Life of Katherine Mansfield, Antony Alpers * Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S. Naipaul
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙ Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙ Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙ Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙ Sex in History, Reay Tannahill ∙ Show People, Kenneth Tynan...