Who Be Kind To
January, 1967
He breaks through the barrier of laughter to the horizon beyond, where the truth has its sanctuary. He had crashed through frontiers of language and feeling that I had hitherto thought impregnable.--Kenneth TynanPerhaps he was a puritan of a kind, untimely born into the world of New York show business, with its self-consciously Jewish jokes, its complacent materialism and rigorously codified prurience: a Calvin of the Catskills, still susceptible to the glamor he denounced. Himself outraged, he...
