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...carries suitcases for traveling companions. His brother, the contemporary conservative Voltaire, is high on him: "Jim's mild mannered, much less abrasive than I. And he has the happy faculty for not antagonizing people ever." Though his tone is less acerbic than William's, James' wit is an effective weapon. Describing deposed Senator Charles Goodell's switch from conservatism to liberal anti-Nixonism, James observed: "It was the most stunning conversion since St. Paul took the road to Damascus...
...commentators say about the campaign style of Illinois' Senator-elect and the way voters respond to it. One sympathetic writer described Stevenson's speechmaking as "almost embarrassingly dull." A Chicago political editor called it dead. Personal and political intimates, recalling the father's grace, spontaneity and wit, find a range of positive adjectives for the son that begins with "deliberate" and ends with "concerned...
...this guise, Agathon saves the book too. With his rambling wit, his irrelevancies, rages, blunderings, unfairnesses, with his tender-rough efforts to jerk his friend Pecker to wisdom through the muck of the world, he emerges as one of those scapegrace saints who have adorned literature from Socrates to Gulley Jimson. Robert Wernick
HUGH WHEELER'S screenplay is shot through with lurid wit, and Harold Prince, though he is slow setting the narrative in motion, soon enough hits a satisfying, brisk pace. The product has an elegant playfulness which spares it from the pall which pervades black comedy of the Losey-Pinter genre. Contributing to the atmosphere of levity are Heidelinde Weiss as the voyeur daughter and Anthony Corlan as the homosexual son. They give two wildly funny performances...
...director of drama and books for the Pacifica Foundation's FM station KPFA, arranging interviews and producing plays. He got a B.A. in English and published his first novel, The Naked Martini, which Harrison Salisbury described in a review for the Times as possessing "a certain wry wit, but 255 pages seems a long, long journey with no better company than a young adman, his bottles and his babes...