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I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."

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Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

Kenneth Tynan

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Tynan

Born: April 2, 1927

Died: July 26, 1980 (aged 53)

Bio: Kenneth Peacock Tynan was an English theatre critic and writer. Making his initial impact as a critic at The Observer, he praised Osborne's Look Back in Anger, and encouraged the emerging wave of British theatrical talent.

Known for:

Oh! Calcutta! (1969)
The diaries of Kenneth Tynan
Theatre writings
Kenneth Tynan Letters
Profiles

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