Word: wit
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...graduate (knock on wood) I hope to continue playing somewhere for a year or so. Eventually I want to get into coaching and teaching, like my dad. Unless I get swept off my feet by a tall and handsome fan who reads this and falls in love with my wit...
...republic, if you can keep it." That was Benjamin Franklin's response to an inquiry at the end of the 1787 Constitutional Convention about the type of government the founders of the U.S. had just created. The remark is usually cited as an example of Franklin's renowned wit, but he was deadly serious. He understood the experiment in constitutional governance to be a delicate thing: one that is difficult to maintain, and easy to destroy. We are reminded of this once again as we observe the sad and tawdry constitutional crisis that has suddenly engulfed South Korea because...
...conversational lines sound like a speech or sermon. His physical acting, however, is simply magnetic, especially in the second act as Stanley’s nervous breakdown becomes complete. Terence Rigby is the play’s “straight man,” whose dry wit and easygoing manner evolves into endearing confidence, culminating in his last line to Stanley: “Don’t let them tell you what...
...conversational lines sound like a speech or sermon. His physical acting, however, is simply magnetic, especially in the second act as Stanley’s nervous breakdown becomes complete. Terence Rigby is the play’s “straight man,” whose dry wit and easygoing manner evolves into endearing confidence, culminating in his last line to Stanley: “Don’t let them tell you what...
...Dating Game. But, in the version of the dating game that I’ve watched on TV the girl always leaves with one of the bachelors. I asked the guys questions and they made up phony answers to try to outdo each other’s smashing wit. The strained chicanery was finally over when one of the guys announced that he had a 4 p.m. class to be at. We all left awkwardly, without any indication that we’d ever be seeing each other again. At the end of the dating game I played in Annenberg...