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His puritan, muscular, moor-tramping soul (superbly mirrored in Higgins's hymn to the intellect in Pygmalion) bred in him a loathing of all things, whether poems or gadgets, that were designed to comfort the human condition without actively trying to improve it.
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'Sergeant Pepper'—a decisive moment in the history of Western Civilization.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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Born:
April 2, 1927
Died:
July 26, 1980
(aged 53)
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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.
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