Reviewed by Linda Winer
English politicians have just been assassinated. Terrorists are knocking off literary figures, apparently as a statement of taste. Yet the insulated academics in <cite>The Philanthropist</cite>—the 1970 Christopher Hampton comedy that lured Matthew Broderick back to Broadway - go about their facile chatter and sexual dalliances as if the day's catastrophes were less important than who's going to wash the party …