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Swift Visions. With great and often savage wit, the book reduces major philosophical questions to potted, page-long parables. Seryozha, for instance, loses his faith in God (Stalin) because, when he goes out with his school comrades to harvest potatoes, he discovers that the "electric plows" of Soviet propaganda do not exist. The insomniac Karlinsky wonders why death has not yet been abolished. And to match his vision of "The Future," one would have to go back to the indignatio saeva of Swift himself...
...Passionate Sightseer, though a slim volume, gives us sharp insight into all these aspects of this fascinating wit, scholar and sightseer. To make all his visual reference perfectly clear, the publishers have included extensive photographs of the master-works and places discussed...
India's legislators are against maharajahs, Lady Godiva and Lady Chatterley's Lover; see BUSINESS, The Dangers of Wit...
...their individual characteristics, the only really extraordinary thing about Mike Nichols and Elaine May is their wit. They use that, too, to keep their lives to themselves. Since reporters are forever asking them for details about their offstage relationship, they have just devised an all-purpose answer. "We live very quietly and we date occasionally," say Mike Nichols and Elaine May. "Right now we are seeing Comden and Green...
...same token his actors act, not with the usual bombinations of Oriental drama, but as though the camera had found them alone and simply living; and they live, as few characters in pictures do, real lives that swell to the skin with pain and poetry and sudden mother wit. Actor Chatterjee, as a young man too gifted to be strong, provides an unforgettable object of the Biblical lesson (Luke 16:8): ". . . the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light." And Actress Tagore, though she looks as mysterious and lovely as an Apsaras, nevertheless...