Word: banter
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...Martin Robbins' two poems, "Letter From a Place Near Siberia" struck me as an effective and scary weaving together of the phrases that terrify men in this century. Judith Kegan has two poems, both pleasant; the second's light, sophisticated banter is damaged by a lapse into treacle in the last two lines. And Neal Kozodoy has the Hebrew text and his own translations of some poems by Uri Zvi Greenberg, an Israeli poet. I can't read Hebrew, but parts of the translations makes me wish I could. Other parts are just puzzling...
...Washington, although it eventually became quite fond of him, never understood Charlie Wilson-and Detroit's Wilson certainly never understood Washington. The Wilson remarks that would have passed for wry banter in a General Motors boardroom became mat ters of controversy in the capital's political climate. During the closed hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee on his confirmation, Wilson made a comment that was widely misquoted and was to dog him throughout his governmental years. According to the press, Wilson told the Senators: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." What...
When asked if he personally had ever raised the issue with Kennedy, Bundy recalled only "a little light banter around the President's office" about the subject, and nothing of "what any of us said about...
Rendezvous in Senlis (translated from the French of Jean Anouilh by Edward Owen Marsh), though early and playful Anouilh, has all his earmarks and tooth marks, his jarring flavors, his jolting banter, his cactus-spined nonsense. It is also as often wordy as witty, and wayward as skillful. In a very jaunty first act. a young man-to impress a young lady-rents a house and hires himself two parents and an old family retainer. Then it turns out that he already has a wife, whose wealth keeps his real parents and his mistress and her husband in luxurious idleness...
...creating his determinedly unromantic lovers, Shakespeare as a comedy writer traded sighs for banter, nightingales for mockingbirds, antic humor for elegant wit. Benedick's first sniffy words to Beatrice-"What, my dear Lady Disdain-are you yet alive?"-could drop straight out of Congreve. As for their wearing their hearts on their fingernails, it is a truism that the pair of them-he all scorn for marriage, she all scorn for men-are so antagonistic for being so much alike. Fortunately, the dullards around them dream up one bright idea: they contrive that an eavesdropping Benedick shall hear that...