Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DYLAN. Whether Alec Guinness, as Dylan Thomas, spars with newsmen, spats with his wife, or speaks in the soft dark ness next to a sleeping child, he conveys the poet's warmth and wit-as we! as his decline through sycophancy, self indulgence and alcohol...
Most of the gems were synthesized on the fertile typewriter of Timothy S. Mayer, who made an obviously heroic effort to inject class into the show. His lyrics are carefully worked, although not labored, and he often uses genuine wit instead of the tired sex euphemisms that are so at home in a production of this sort...
DYLAN. Whether Alec Guinness, as Dylan Thomas, spars with newsmen, spats with his wife or speaks in the soft darkness next to a sleeping child, he conveys the poet's warmth and wit-as well as his decline through sycophancy, self-indulgence and alcohol...
...intact: he could still see, read and speak. Most important, he could still write-with a ballpoint pen. It took three pens, and more agony than he may care to admit, to write Episode. The fact that it was written, that it reflects so much of his oldtime waspish wit and wordcraft, is the most substantial evidence of Eric Hodgins' recovery...
Spears is most successful in suggesting the breadth of Auden's interests, his wit, and the complexity of his thought. He is least successful in telling you anything interesting about the poet's life and in nurturing any desire to read Auden's poetry...