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DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. An Oxford historian's excellent biography of the brilliant and irreverent Prime Minister whose gaiety and wit infuriated his Victorian contemporaries even as they illuminated the issues-and pretenses-of his time...
...years, Romney has been a salesman--now he's the politician with the salesman's style. In public and private, he talks with the same force and verbosity; his speech is quick and idiomatic, and, at the same time, earnest and humorless without a trace of wit or sarcasm. He smiles incessantly, but his laughs are usually reserved for uncomfortable moments at press conferences when reporters prick him with those touchy questions he has no intention of answering...
...underline the fat knight's tragedy, Welles has ignored the light side of the pun-prone, fun-filled roisterer. Falstaff describes himself as "not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." Not, apparently, in Welles. What ultimately makes this Falstaff ring false is a lack of comedy in the Bard's most comic creation...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Sound a bellow with a whisper, match a maharajah with a mouse, mix wit with whimsy, and you have the combination for an evening of charming entertainment by Flanders and Swann...
...spent three days in the capital, was exposed to the intense attention Washingtonians accord only to those whom they regard as potential presidential candidates-though he persistently denied any intent of running in 1968. At a crowded 30-minute press conference, Reagan handled himself with assurance and wit, gave his views on subjects ranging from Viet Nam ("full resources" should be used to support U.S. troops there) to whether Michigan's Governor George Romney should take a position on the war ("It sure would help him at press conferences"). Items...