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...Chain I'm Smoking" is delightful--especially in comparison with the rest of the issue. Updike's versification and phraseology are light and refreshing: "Milady I like your diminutive lips. . . .I like your wee fingers and miniscule hips. . . ." Unfortunately his style here only accentuates the paucity of wit in his other contributions. Updike is the Lampoon's only real talent. Too bad they have quenched his fire, or burned it out. Or maybe this was just a bad month...
Robin Homet, as Professor Tommy Turner, is called upon to be drunk, to be eloquent, to be amorous. Homet not only handles all these individual assignments excellently, he ties them into a sharp, consistent characterization. Too often actors playing the crusading professor let the wit of authors James Thurber and Elliot Nugent carry scenes for them. In Homet's battle with liquor in the second act, however, there is no coasting. It is his highest point in an evening of good touches...
...power is in the love of the people." But Greece's Queen is no royal flibbertigibbet. Born to the purple as well as being married to it, she takes what she calls "this King business" with deadly seriousness, and exploits every ounce of her charm and wit to strengthen its power...
With these two as the outstanding actors in This Music is Clive Parry, who handles his role of a jaded and cynical Englishman with dry wit...
Then Nehru announced his support for one major Communist position, to wit, that there should be "90 clear days" for explanations-90 days after the construction of explanation huts, not 90 days after the transfer of P.W.s to Indian custody, as the armistice specifically ruled. In New Delhi, one of Nehru's senior aides also suggested that the U.S. do more to curb its ally, President Rhee. "What we want," he said, "is an unambiguous statement that the South Koreans are in the wrong and will be kept under control . . . It is for the U.S. to order that...