Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Herald's James Gordon Bennett for running "personals." Sample: "Mischievous Lizzy and Mary wish to form the acquaintance of two lively gentlemen . . . They must be of high society; none need answer unless sincere." The tony Saturday Review of Literature still carries such coy invitations as: "Will clever Cleopatra correspond with mature, amiable Antony...
What Harrison claims to know is that the admirable Captain Kelway is dealing with the enemy. This is incredible in a man like Kelway, who was wounded at Dunkirk and has responsible duties at the War Office. But Harrison is clever; the drop of suspicion that he injects remains to corrode a happy love affair...
After having only seen him on the screen, it is pleasant to learn that Jack Haley is no slouch as a comedian, himself. The skits he appears in do not seem as clever as Miss Lillie's, and one of them--"All Over the Map"--is downright painful. But it is difficult not to like Mr. Haley since he has made such an art of portraying the average man without making him out to be also a jerk. Aside from his inescapable, affability, Mr. Haley can be heard in even the farthest reaches of the theater, whether he's speaking...
Dreyfus Echoes. At first glance, the letters seem only the posturings of a dilettante, but this impression soon wears off. Proust's letters display a remarkable transformation in character: from an effete youth to a sharp observer of the tragedy in life, from a superficially clever snob to a mordant analyst and remorseless judge of snobbery...
...Glory that was Greece" is a classic example of the worst type of college "humor." Setting off on a questionably clever tangent, it deals, in a jazz improvisation, with Penelope and Odysseus, referred to as Penny and Odie...