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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would all be insane without Irving to take us from our world filled with liars, cheaters, terrorists, rapists, burglars, muggers and cynics to his world where there is just enough wit to make it all very funny. Thank God for John Irving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1981 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...Gazette with parodies of Lewis Carroll and Kipling. In The Political Jungle Book, Lord Balfour, the hapless Prime Minister, is called "Sheer Khan't." Throughout Saki's life, Celtic mysticism and foreboding, plus a raw strain of patriotism, kept trying to break through the veneer of satiric wit and comic, cultured urbanity that made him celebrated as man and writer. Langguth notes that he knew "the frustration of an adventurer's soul locked in the body of a clerk." Soon Munro left London again to become the Morning Post's correspondent in the Balkans, covering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Butterfly That Stamped | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

Langguth wastes little time trying to decide whether Saki was a literary butterfly who finally tried to stamp or some kind of shrike with a sense of humor. The book notes the Waugh-like gift for comic names (Loona Bimberton, Septimus Brope), the Wildean wit, the Wodehousean way with the featherheaded fauna of the West End and the country house party, the surprise endings self-consciously borrowed from O'Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Butterfly That Stamped | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...hands and leveling a whine: "I really don't think much of his work." No confrontations there. Face to face with their adversaries they assault them with flattery. Perhaps it's best. Maybe we could no longer endure a life made up of chaotic barkings and overwhelming wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Have All the Insults Gone? | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...loverly as she was in 1956. Frederick Loewe's music has lost none of its enchantment, and Alan Jay Lerner's book and lyrics, which of course owe more than a passing debt to George Bernard Shaw, seem more than ever to be models of literacy and wit. Some other musicals from the '40s and '50s-The Most Happy Fella, for instance-now seem dated; this one, which was set so long ago anyway, will probably never show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Still Loverly | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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