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The Ordeal of Kenneth Tynan

by Wm. F. Buckley Jr.

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An English drama critic, while a guest of the U.S., proselytes in behalf of Fidel Castro, and is called for questioning by a congressional committee. He wants us to know that is Un-Amedican.

We are called upon, ladies and gentlemen, to be angry along with Kenneth Tynan, Englishman, critic, Angry Young Man, and sorrowful with him too, for he has been through an ordeal, which we are to understand is really our ordeal. None of us, I warrant, will succeed in feeling quite as sorry for him as he feels for himself: the point is we are to try, and editorial writers and columnists all over the country are doing their best.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

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

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