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Industrious Author Tabori, who has written 33 books, 28 feature films and 120 TV scripts, begins this volume in a spirit of friendly inquiry. But as the toll of human stupidities mounts, his tone seems to get more outraged and frenzied, particularly with the follies committed in the name of romantic love and religion. "Stupidity," he groans, "is as vast as all mankind." Is it curable? Yes, says Tabori gloomily, "provided, of course, that someone wants to be cured."
*Wilde for suing the Marquis of Queensberry for libel when he referred (accurately) to the poet's homosexuality; Schiller by the Duke of Württemberg after the stir caused by his social criticism in The Robbers.