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Television's sultan of splutter, ABC's Sam Donaldson, walked out of the East Room and, as usual, was still talking. "The fire's gone out," he boomed, his words cutting through the noise and confusion of the mass exodus from Ronald Reagan's first news conference in three months...
...corner in the surrounding maze of streets . . . and the lurid-seeming creatures that glide from nowhere into nothing-Arab, Laskar, Pacific Islander, Chinky, Hindoo, and so on, each carry ing his own perfume. You know, too . . . the cobbly courts, the bestrewn alleys, through which at night gas jets asthmatically splutter; and the mephitic glooms and silences of the dockside...
...sisters-one notably played by Jill Ben nett (Mrs. John Osborne)-is pierced by nostalgia when the old writer reminisces about damp England, colonial days, his own youth when he never really felt young. The latter-day equivalent of Jimmy Porter, a visiting American hippie, can only splutter four-letter words in return, the abstract tokens of a rage that is blind and almost dumb...
Preliminary Splutter. His best novels -Kipps, Tono-Bungay, Mr. Britling Sees It Through-have their share of belowstairs social comedy and wistful aspirations. But as an artist as well as a prophet, Dickson judges Wells "all brains and very little heart." In Boon, his wicked attack on Henry James, he may have been assaulting in James what was missing in himself: infinite care and moral responsibility...
...doubt beneath the bravado-the unspoken but ever-present question of young Wells, the born loser: "What if I'm wrong?" When he was only 25, Wells wrote: "Science is a match that man has just got alight . . . It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands lit and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he had anticipated-darkness still." It is this Wells, awed, uncertain...