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Dahrendorf denies any malice in his attacks. "For me," he says, "criticism is an expression of love rather than detachment." Nevertheless, some colleagues note that he is headstrong and cannot get along with plodders. An intellectual gadfly with acerbic wit, Dahrendorf clearly likes to speak his mind...
...office receipts, the distributors of La Grande Bouffe would like moviegoers to be scandalized by: gluttony, scatology, sexual perversion, assorted malfunctions of the gastrointestinal tract and a rather florid disposition toward suicide. This may also have been the intention of Director Ferreri. Unfortunately, however, he hasn't the wit or style or inventiveness to outrage. Ferreri is the kind of clumsy film maker whose deadeningly literal style could turn even the grossest affront into a piddling bromide...
John Kenneth Galbraith has become that rarest of social critics-a reformer whose new ideas are cheerfully anticipated even by people whose worldly holdings may be swept away if his programs are put into practice. In part that is because Galbraith has managed to write with wit and style about the 'dismal science ' of economics. As the eternal gadfly of American capitalism, he has also played a considerable role in popularizing once radical economic theory The Affluent Society (1958) predicted an age of private wealth and public impoverishment in the U.S. (a bit more extreme, on both counts...
Tired, sobered down, almost choking over his "on-the-one-hand, on-the-other" game plan, Grass still has more endurance, wit, sheer cantankerousness than a pair of polarized extremists half his age. "What's progress?" he asks stubbornly (and who else would have the courage and humor to use that old-fashioned word in the age of apocalypse...
...Wit is something else she will seek, though she notes, "This is not the time to worry about the price of caviar...