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...into water. A miracle, a miracle!"). Three pieces are devoted to the demerits of Noel Coward, whose works are finally summed up in two words (of George Jean Nathan's): "zymotic bilge." As for the "flea minds" of Ireland who are not properly reverent to their self-exiled bard, "these critics do not injure O'Casey, but they disgrace Ireland." He feels he is in good company, for Shakespeare too seems to him to be disgraced in his homeland ("The Old Vic is only a hole-and-corner existence for England's greatest dramatist...
...arrival of a bunch of New Utopians, their cars laden "with whisky, cans and contraceptives," and left them at the end without even their illusions. After The Groves of Academe (1952), the U.S. progressive college will never be the same again; in that book Mary McCarthy (who taught at Bard and Sarah Lawrence) posed the dilemma of the liberal president who could not fire an incompetent professor because the fellow had cunningly pretended once to have been a member of the Communist Party...
With all this industry, confusion was inescapable-as was plagiarism by lesser writers. Bulgarian-born Professor Artine Artinian of New York's Bard College, long a pro-De Maupassant agitator, has now brought out the first complete English-language edition of the master's works, with 65 stories purged from the old De Maupassant canon and with hitherto unknown or unpublished pieces added...
...kind of wry grandeur, the play does so on its own ironic rather than on any customary dramatic turns. Tiger displays a charming loquacity, a dawdling relentlessness. Helen must chatter and Hecuba sniff, and there are little vaudevilles on the difficulty of cursing well, little broadsides on a bard's-eye view of war. If in some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental, to a world never long enough...
...English 123," "Selected Plays of Shakespeare," Professor Harry Levin becomes Elizabethan actor and director. His recitation and analysis of six of the Bard's plays is usually a smash hit with the ground lings assembled in New Lecture-on-Kirkland...