Kenneth Tynan in the News

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A few weeks ago on the BBC, no less, an unmentionable word was mentioned by, no less, the literary manager of England’s National Theater; and, once again, Mr. Kenneth Tynan was in the news. He has been newsworthy for a good many years in dramatic circles because he is if not a first-rate critic (he is impeded from being that by his worldview, which is materialist and egoistic), at least a very very good one, in that he is a shrewd observer and expert verbalizer who disposes of a pyrotechnical vocabulary and abundant wit, and is therefore fun to read whatever one thinks of him, of drama, or, indeed, of the universe itself.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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A few weeks ago on the BBC, no less, an unmentionable word was mentioned by, no less, the literary manager of England’s National Theater; and, once again, Mr. Kenneth Tynan was in the news. He has been newsworthy for a good many years in dramatic circles because he is if not a first-rate critic (he is impeded from being that by his worldview, which is materialist and egoistic), at least a very very good one, in that he is a shrewd observer and expert verbalizer who disposes of a pyrotechnical vocabulary and abundant wit, and is therefore fun to read whatever one thinks of him, of drama, or, indeed, of the universe itself.