Word: epigrams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain raiser, there is, for some reason or other, Alfred de Musset's A Door Must Be Open Or Shut, a one act play of trivial epigram and some humor, featuring the well-developed acting of Leslie Cass as a teasing and flirting Marquise. Joseph Mitchell plays a droll, glib Count with too much seriousness, and in too much of a hurry, leaving any timing up to the capable Miss Cass. The program notwithstanding, there was no indication that the play had a director, both Miss Cass and Mitchell fending--and fairly well--for themselves...
After his retirement, he lived quietly in the country, writing books and articles and intermittently swooping down on human fatuity with the kind of epigram that kept him well established as one of the last castings of a great mold of Englishman : crankily individualistic, knottily paradoxical, brilliantly articulate. "I know as much about the afterlife as you−nothing," Dr. Inge told an interviewer last July. "I don't even know there is one . . . I have no vision of 'heaven' or a 'welcoming God.' I do not know what I shall find. I must wait...
...your superb tribute to Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in TIME [May 25] may I, for the record, add one of Dr. Fosdick's choicest epigrams, from a sermon which he preached in the Riverside Church nearly 25 years ago? . . . Said Dr. Fosdick, "It is magnificent to grow old-if one keeps young!" And now, a quarter of a century later, on his 75th birthday, Dr. Fosdick has become the finest personification of his own meaningful epigram. WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD Executive Secretary Associated Church Press New York City
...therefore tantalizing when Professor Bundy wrote on Saturday to criticize the article. He corrected the statement that he had proposed "individual treatment"; he had merely concurred with the University's policy. He also disclaimed his ownership of an epigram by Lord Keynes. He protested no further than this. He did not point out that if he had any ideas about defending ourselves against the attacks of "society," they were more precise than a "constant concern with the excellence of the University," and that he was poorly represented by such a quotation. He did not complain on behalf of his fellow...
Fortunately, Behrman's wit never deserts the play, and even when his imagination falters, Jane is quite entertaining. Nevertheless, richly furnished with epigram and polished style, Behrman's drawing room still looks bare without a plot...