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...first foray at playwriting, Novelist Muriel Resnik sprinkles spice and sentiment with a light hand and adds a fair dollop of wit. The confection is well served by an able cast, the perfection by Sandy Dennis. Liquor may be quicker, as Ogden Nash once argued, but Sandy is dandy...
...real fault of this book and of Beckett's recent works is not the question of whether God exists or whether life has meaning. It is that despite Beckett's ingenuity, his touches of great eloquence, his flashes of brilliant wit, he simply has nothing new to say, and what he says over and over again does not much need saying. As with most of Beckett's metaphors for the human condition, How It Is begins as a small shock and ends as a small bore...
Spears is most successful in suggesting the breadth of Auden's interests, his wit, and the complexity of his thought. He is least successful in telling you anything interesting about the poet's life and in nurturing any desire to read Auden's poetry...
These road boys may lack spark, they may lack ingenuity, but they are no fools. So they have compensated. For enthusiasm they substitute buffoonery; for wit, volume; for satire, ridicule...
High spirits, deft wit and an elegantly sketched stage mark Amis' comic theater; the face-pullings, pratfalls and brisk tattoo of slapstick are the devices of a master. His aim is serious comedy. And, like the skewered and flayed Englishman of the fable, it never hurts except when he laughs...