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POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr sacrifices some laughs in treating two serious themes: the capacity to love and the squandering of talent. Still, wit and insight inform this tale of an English poet on an alcoholic sabbatical in New York...
...Kennedy Wit, Adler...
POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr sacrifices some laughs in treating two serious themes: the capacity to love and the squandering of talent. Still, wit and insight inform this tale of an English poet on an alcoholic sabbatical in New York...
...created one of the most outrageous scoundrels in contemporary fiction, a whoring, boozing young wastrel who sponges off his friends and beats his wife and girl friends. Author Donleavy then turns the moral universe on its head by making the reader love Dangerfield for his killer instinct, flamboyant charm, wit, flashing generosity-and above all for his wild, fierce, two-handed grab for every precious second of life. "More," "Now" and "Eeeeee!" are Dangerfield's key words...
...present, the play concerns emotional paralysis, moral commitment, intellectuality, and connected problems of an academic family. There is a great deal of peripheral wit. The cast got some good laughs out of it, but necessarily couldn't make much emotional capital...