Word: witlessness
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...well. to find the "editorial" much diminished. It is still the same old horse-manure though; gracious knows why the editors cling so tenaciously to their cretinish little jester and that tired bird. The introduction to the "publications guide" chides freshmen with some grace and gentility. But Ibis's witless spleen can only remind us that Lampy wil probably remain the most literate of Harvard's prep-school fraternities, but only the ingrown toenail of her literary corpus...
Bedtime Story is a witless, one-joke soporific concocted by a pair of usually wide-awake Hollywood pitchmen. This time out, Producer-Writer Stanley Shapiro (Lover Come Back, That Touch of Mink) and Co-Author Paul Henning have pitched a Mickey to the comic muse. Story unfolds against rear-projection views of the Riviera, where a bogus Highness (David Niven) and an ex-U.S. Army corporal (Marlon Brando) pool their resources to squeeze a living out of wealthy women such as Dody Goodman, an Omaha madcap just born to be trimmed. The thieves fall out, of course, when they...
...things go wrong in Hubley's universe. Too often his art smells of the airbrush. Too often his narration reads like a high school science lecture. All the same it is well to remember that, for the present, the alternative to Hubley's unperfected universe is the witless world of Yogi Bear...
...that it does not require much space, and the reader is given only four or five pages between wry smiles. If the book is used as night-table literature, even the weariest citizen cannot achieve unconsciousness without meeting, say, the indignant wife of Federico the upright thief, the witless teen-ager who lives to dance, and the impassioned auto-accessories dealer who smashes his car for love. If the reader is the least bit wakeful, he goes on to meet Consolina, the servant girl who admires blond men and Clara, the fortuneteller's fickle daughter. The face begins...
...other papers narrowed the search for a scapegoat. "The President's murder," wrote the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "is partly attributable to the witless fools who, in seeking to tarnish the nation's honor, have besmirched only their own by flying the United States flag upside down." The Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union took defensive note of the wave of anger that, in the first hours after Kennedy's death, seemed to focus on the far right. The assassination, said the Times-Union, "must not be allowed to become the cause célèbre for a witch...