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...Herbert, British wit, last week felt the pinch a bit. His income tax for '58 he dutifully had paid the state. Demands for ?85 more made the noted author roar...
...that presumably links these varied souls, sects and sentiments is worshiping the false god of self, modern man's craven idol. The ammunition that Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that...
Mary, Mary. A thoroughly engaging comedy by Jean Kerr, author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, who offers an obvious marriage-divorce plot but has decorated it with splendid wit...
...poet's role in the world. He delights in being called-by reviewers "whose sleep I have troubled"-a poet "who has never learned how to write poetry." Forsaking deliberate obscurity, he dissects the terrifying emptiness of contemporary life in sharply observant verse that is salted with wit. In his prizewinning volume of 19 poems (there are also twelve translations from the German of Goethe, Rilke and others), he is more chronicler than participant, mainly exploring the grey world of loneliness and near despair through the eyes of women. "You see what I am," cries the anguished heroine...
Unfortunately, the wit of this former CRIMSON managing editor tends to minimize the impact of the tragedy. Since everybody is sitting cares when the sheriff, Zenoch McCalla, commits suicide...