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However, there can be too much directorial control and some players seem content merely to don the assorted masks that Carnovsky parcelled out. This foible seemed the particular property of the villains. Matt Conley in the most unkindest role of all, the bastard Edmund, exercised enough wit and restraint to stay this side of melodrama. But Regan (Phoebe Brand) and Goneril (Ludi Claire) ranted and raved, groaned and grimaced. Robert Benedict's Oswald was arch and despicable, Nick Smith's Cornwall took appropriate relish in kicking out Gloucester's eyes; these actors' evil was far too lunatic to be cruel...
...sending Galbraith as his ambassador to New Delhi, Kennedy deliberately chose a man who could be depended upon to bring to Indian problems his own mixture of sympathy and irony. Kennedy was delighted by Galbraith's wit, effrontery and unabashed pursuit of the unconventional wisdom, and they were now exceptionally good friends. Nor did the President appear to mind Ken's guerrilla warfare against the ikons and taboos of the Department of State. From time to time, the President took pleasure in announcing that Galbraith was the best ambassador...
...STEVENSON WIT by Bill Adler. 95 pages. Doub/eday...
...their kids' funny letters for a volume called Letters from Camp, Adler has become the acknowledged "king of nonbooks." His 25 volumes (eight published in 1965 alone) have sold more than 2,000,000 copies and have brought him about $250,000 in royalties and guarantees. The Kennedy Wit alone sold 110,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 1,000,000 in paperback. The Johnson Humor, unsurprisingly, hasn't done terribly well -just under 25,000 copies so far. But the "letters" volumes, particularly Love Letters to the Beatles and Love Letters to the Mets...
...Stevenson Wit, which Adler thought up shortly before Adlai Stevenson died, reminds readers that Stevenson was a singularly lighthearted and amusing man. There is, for example, his rallying call during the 1952 presidential campaign: "Eggheads unite-you have nothing to lose but your yolks!" Not to mention his wry crack after the election: "When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be President, and I believed it." Or the comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always...