Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MISCASTING MARS TWO important roles. David Schrag as head jailer ("and assistant tormentor") Wilfrid Shadbolt valiantly stumbles and smirks his way through his path of comic relief, but the darkly cherubic actor simply looks too young to be taken seriously. A suitor of Phoebe and a conspirator with Point, his adolescent countenance distracts the audience from an otherwise entertaining effort. French as Elsie suffers from a corresponding problem; more than any of the other non-students in the show, French is just too old for her part of "a maid of 17." Possessing the production's finest voice...
...Canada. Here we are hunkered down mindlessly in the snow, smack in the middle of the shortest possible overland missile, or, if you like, infantry route between those legendary, loving pals the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The 20th century, promised to us by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1904, is almost over, and Canada, so far as pennant-contending nations go, is still fumbling through spring training. Unemployment is running at 11%. Our dollar is teetering at 760 (U.S.). But what had surfaced as one of the most contentious election issues in the first month of the campaign...
Those who read Harper's because of Kinsley will probably throw up their hands in disgust and join great Harper's writers like Wilfrid Sheed and David Owen in jumping ship. But the new Harper's is not hopeless or craven, just different. It's still witty and informative, and the counterman at Nini's Corner reports that it's selling very well. At the very least it deserves a chance to prove itself...
...them. Argues Body Builder Rachel McLish: "You have a simple choice of what to put on your bones: fat or muscle. Working out is a positive addiction." It may also be the means to that elusive, seductive goal: a prolonged, vital youth. "The fitness business," suggests Novelist-Critic Wilfrid Sheed, "is about sex and immortality. By toning up the system you can prolong youth, just about finesse middle age and then, when the time comes, go straight into senility...
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle/ Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed/ How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan/ The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Persico/ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling/ Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner