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Tiger at the Gates (translated from the French of Jean Giraudoux by Christopher Fry) brought early distinction to the 1955-56 season. Just how good an orthodox play is this sunburst of dialectics and wit may be open to question; beyond question the play exhibits the elegance, the light-fingered thoughtfulness, the ironic lyricism of the most civilized playwright of the era between the wars. And Christopher Fry's translation not only does brilliantly by the play but may even be Fry's solidest writing for the theater...
...Giraudoux's Hector, the great warrior is the great hater of war; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Ulysses, the wise man sadly grasps the impotence of wisdom. And both plays are as autumnal in their ruefulness as they remain vernal in their wit...
...Your-Life-like TV program who decides to become a saint. That idea is a vulgarized Mailer version of a book called Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West-who also wrote a little satirical tale of Hollywood (The Day of the Locust), which in one page shows more style, wit and distinction than could be combed from all The Deer Park...
...years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his present interment in the Army have not dulled the wit of George Jerome Goodman '52. He has fashioned a novel about a Harvard undergraduate whose antics defy comparison. Maybe Charlie Garnier's outlook is normal, but his projects certainly are not. The Bubble Makers is as lively a story as polished writing and a subtle sense of irony can make it. Goodman's first book is riotous reading...
...long, tense duel begins, wit to wit and will across will, between the embattled householder and the leering principle of unreason that fists in his refrigerator and lords it on his hearth. Worse still, March soon realizes that the law is no less his enemy than the outlaw; for if the police find out where the criminals are hiding, they are sure to come after them, and when they do, Bogart & Co., as promised, will make sure that March and family die first. The man of the house stands alone, and if he falls, his family falls with him. What...