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...character of the thoughtful fire-builder would seem to suggest a drama flickering with irony, but Playwright Mann Page has apparently overlooked this possibility, has devoted himself to the vapid story of the Elliotts. Inasmuch as they are wholly theatrical characters, limned without reality or wit, little can be said for the entertainment...
Maurois tells the story of this dazzling career with all the wit and penetration, the insight and sympathy, that make him a master of modern biography. The succession of romantic scenes, the group of famous friends--Shelley, Hobhouse, Tom Moore--Maurois paints them all in brilliant colors and witty phrases...
...glimmer above Mt. Auburn Street, where thirteen hundred men, thirty thousand tons of concrete, and fourteen hundred tons of structural steel are casting Harvard into another mould. Under the shadow of the new the past looks upward or averts its eyes. An idea, a gift, a burst of undergraduate wit, an impassive digging of foundations and overnight a Unit has changed the skyline, like the house that Jack would have built if he too had had ten million dollars...
...Significance. H.L. Mencken is admired for his tickling wit, not for his uncomforting, uncomfortable common sense. His skepticism, shared tacitly by an intelligent minority of U.S. citizens, he voices in so vigorous and individual a manner that it can be laughed off by many who secretly agree with him. "No one will deny, I take it, that we owe the Rockefeller Institute, at least in part, to certain purely theological tremors in the donor. . . . However . . . this is really not an argument in favor of religion; it is simply an argument against the human race." The U.S. has no Established Church...
...Negro nightclubs. Nor is the Lord God any less credible because he is imagined as working, like all important beings, in an office with a rolltop desk. From such humble visions, welling out of the fervid spirit of the black man. Playwright Marc Connelly, hitherto chiefly famed for his wit, has fashioned what is indubitably one of the most beautiful and affecting plays of recent years...