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SOUL OF WOOD, by Jakov Lind. The author, whose Austrian Jewish parents were killed by the Nazis, picks relentlessly at the fabric of guilt and complicity that made all humanity an accessory to Germany's crimes. Lind has a mocking, graceful wit that is both casual and lethal...
...devious British agent, a German Jew masquerading as an ex-Nazi, a Soviet colonel masquerading as a defector, and a smashingly sexy American girl who turns out to be an Israeli agent. The backgrounds, chiefly Berlin and London, are deftly convincing; the derring-do is deadpan and understated; the wit is astringent but genuinely funny...
...dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send a suicide telegram? Can you imagine getting a thing like that? You have...
...Academy at Annapolis and a Southerner himself, was not attracted to Butler by hero worship. "I wanted to take on the meanest damned rascal I could find," West explains. But in sorting through the myths, West discovered that beneath the Beast's rapacious exterior dwelt a man of wit, large ideas and generous humanitarianism...
...people in the community dismiss it is good, crude, clubbie fun. In No Hard Feelings to be sure, the usual crudities are there; the puns, the stylized gestures, the obvious right gags guffaws from drunks and old grads alike. is also an excellent entertainment. The songs have sound and wit; the dances are uniformly fine; and the whole production, from resplendent costumes has a boisterous flair seldom seen in Cambridge...