By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.

a member of long standing

The conservatives,, those who accept neither the higher criticism of the Bible nor the Darbyite doctrine, are ignored completely.

After all, the author of Portnoy's Complaint and Sabbath's Theater has made a literary career out of fudging the line between his life and his fiction, writing endlessly aborn misogynistic protagonists teasingly named Philip.