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Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer. Making his initial impact as a critic at ''The Observer'' (1954–58, 1960–63), he praised Osborne's ''Look Back in Anger'' (1956), and encouraged the emerging wave of British theatrical talent. In 1963, Tynan was appointed as the new National Theatre Company's literary manager.
An opponent of theatre censorship, Tynan was considered by many to be the first person to say 'fuck' on British television (although this is now disputed) which was controversial at the time. Later in his life, he settled in California where he resumed his writing career.
==Early life==
Tynan was born in Birmingham to Letitia Rose Tynan and (as he was led to believe) "Peter Tynan" (see below). As a child, he stammered but possessed early on a high degree of articulate intelligence. By the age of six, he was already keeping a diary. At King Edward's School, Birmingham he was a brilliant student of whom one of his masters said, "He was the only boy I could never teach anything." He played the lead, Doctor Parpalaid, in an English translation of Jules Romains' farce ''Knock''. While at school, Tynan began smoking, which became a lifelong habit.
Tynan was twelve at the outbreak of the Second World War. At thirteen, he was nearly killed when a landmine destroyed the houses on the other side of the Birmingham street where the Tynans lived, killing the inhabitants.〔 He adopted a then outrageous set of opinions. During school debates, he advocated repealing laws against homosexuality and abortion. During a school debate on the motion, "This House Thinks the Present Generation Has Lost the Ability to Entertain Itself" Tynan gave a speech on the pleasures of masturbation. By the time the war ended, he had gained a scholarship to Oxford University.
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