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...Declaration." The manifesto revealed that the group was not a group at all, but split fair in two over the artist's ancient agonizer: whether to save the world by his exertions or by his example. Half, led by Osborne, Movieman Lindsay Anderson, 35, and Drama Critic Ken Tynan, 31, said artists must "take an interest in social environment-and that means politics." The rest, spearheaded by Existentialist Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, insisted that politics is for common people, that salvation must first be found by searching the soul...
...agnostic hero was beginning to find God in the extremity of his suffering at the hands of Nazi torturers. Up stood Christopher Logue, 31, a leftist poet passionately engaged in the campaign to ban the bomb in Britain, and shouted: "Oh, rubbish!" A moment later Novelist Elaine Tynan, Critic Tynan's pretty blonde American wife, got up and stomped out with Logue...
Critic KENNETH TYNAN, also in the Observer-He was without doubt a great writer ... He attempted, and almost pulled off, two mountainous tasks: he cleared the English stage of humbug, and the English mind of cant ... As a demolition expert he has no rivals: and we are being grossly irrelevant if we ask a demolition expert, when his work is done: "But what have you created?" It is like expecting a bulldozer to build the Tower of Pisa; or condemning a bayonet for not being a plough. Shaw's genius was for intellectual slum-clearance, not for town planning...
Said London Observer Critic Kenneth Tynan: "Sir Laurence shook hands with greatness, and within a week or so the performance will have ripened into a masterpiece...
After two years, Tynan quit the Standard in a huff because the paper refused to stop printing letters criticizing his own acting. (Fleet Streeters also half-jokingly said that he infuriated his boss Lord Beaverbrook at a dinner party by blowing a smoke ring across the table into the Beaver's open mouth.) On Lord Rothermere's Sketch he found the tabloid an incongruous place for his erudite, allusive prose. But his new job on the more highbrow Observer is just the kind of spot that Tynan has wanted ever since Oxford. On the Observer, says...