Word: witness
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DIED. H.L. STEVENSON, 65, journalist; after a long illness; in Stamford, Connecticut. Stevenson's combination of folksy wit, a strategically deployed Southern drawl and unbending standards made him a living legend at the UPI wire service where, over 31 years, he rose from reporter to editor in chief. Early assignments included the emerging civil rights movement; his tenure at the top coincided with the fall of Richard Nixon and the re-emergence of China, where Stevenson played a key role in the opening of Western news bureaus...
...have to confess that I love the play, despite its somewhat saccharine rags-to-riches plot. I love the way Henry Higgins bombards Liza with continuously more inventive insults, to which she can only respond "coo" and look offended. I still think that "bedraggled guttersnipe" is the height of wit. Henry Higgins has that I'm-too-slick-for-words-but-I-fall-for-women-from- the-underclass kind of style that I find admirable in middle-aged linguists...
...time when everyone was feeling sorry for his position, Truman's resurgent spirit was preparing for a revolution. Utilizing his wit and his statesmanship, he contrived to make the bellicose Congress pass several major bills. As a matter of fact, Truman embarked on an impressive agenda during this period, producing such landmark policy achievements as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan...
...overriding appeal of a Davies book, as his legion of fans will attest, rarely rides on something as mundane as suspense. Instead, Canada's foremost living author, now 81, entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture that he seems to have invented anew: keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating philosophical curiosity...
Because Zaks did not impose a story line on the song cycle, the show is always in danger of playing like an after-dinner revue on a cruise ship. But the music's wit and the cast's verve carry Smokey Joe's Cafe past easy nostalgia into knowledgeable evocation. Unlike the heavy production of Show Boat now on Broadway, this one sails and soars. It's not just a revival; when B.J. Crosby puts her capacious lung power to the gospelish Saved, the show is a revival meeting...