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Kenneth Tynan [1927-1980] English
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Critic


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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A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
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The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
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