Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is Pa Potter. The author has woven around him a comedy unusual in its wit and penetration...
...poignant skit with dashing wit...
...Mephistopheles, he was not the suave fiend intended by the composer. He had not the pretty wit and mocking contempt for silly humanity. He was simply Chaliapin ? boisterous, funny, romping. But the Metropolitan resounded with cheers and the Russian baritone broke the strictest rule of the house when he gave an encore to the Golden Calf song in the first...
Cabell Molds Beauty, Coarseness, Laughter, Horror, Wit...
...style have never been displayed to better advantage than in this, which is among the very bitterest of his books. He is not afraid of coarseness, but he is not afraid of beauty?and in The High Place he has molded beauty and coarseness and sadness and horror and wit and defiant laughter together in a strangely complete and unique achievement...