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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE, by John Osborne, is one man's violent outburst at how he has marred his life and how life has mauled him. Poisoned arrows of wit and vituperation fill the air, and Nicol Williamson is an actor-archer with deadly...
...SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S, by J. P. Donleavy. A writer who can see the humor in human despair, Novelist Donleavy here disburses another handsome, lean portion of his inexhaustible wit, this time about a man who embarks on a successful search for hopelessness...
...slippery opportunist that had hurt him in the 1964 election. Instead, though operating with a bare three-seat majority, Wilson had proved to be an able statesman who could handle his own left wing, was not afraid to slap down raise-happy trade unions. In Parliament his acerbic wit and quick thrusts had continually kept the Opposition off-balance. Heath had no such advantages. He had taken over a badly divided party only eight months ago, and not entirely succeeded in closing the rifts. As a leader, he did not begin to shed his image of aloofness until the last...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Middle age, joyless loves and his own irredeemable mediocrity have given John Osborne's anti-hero a screaming case of psychic jitters. Yet the play is armed with irascible wit, and Nicol Williamson's whiplash acting raises laughs as well as welts...
...real thunderbolts are the words, the wit, and the ever-skeptical cast of mind. Twain knew that the lies people tell themselves are much funnier than the lies they tell others. He had a bird dog's nose for humbug, and he found it everywhere-in religion, patriotism, politics, ethnic pride and national vanity. With baffled awe and unquenchable laughter, he looked upon man as the most arrogant of the apes and found him passing strange: "Man is the only animal who's got the true religion-several of 'em." Twain wonders aloud if mankind would...