Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actor's efforts do not salvage much of the film. I cannot believe that this production is very true to Sitwell; it has no wit or lightness. In fact, the whole mediocre picture looks much too much like an American production for comfort. The disease may very likely be spreading...
...Ashton. Among the best of these were De Valois' animated chess game, Checkmate, her Rake's Progress (after Hogarth's famous drawing sequence) and Ashton's gay Wedding Bouquet and impish Façade (to music by William Walton). They were performed with a brittle wit and a steely stylishness...
...humor here is not situational; it is wit, pure and polished. If you don't like this very English type of repartee, the picture will leave you completely unamused...
Freshman Coach Henry Lamar, when snow covers the sleeping gridiron, often interviews athletically minded men and tries to convince them of the value of a Harvard education. This writer offers a humble suggestion to Mr. Lamar, to wit: That the grass grows green in the Boston home pasture, and that diligent search in season may he worth a lot of hoeing on frost stiffened ground...
...earthly satiation with the life of the senses, and he is prepared to visit Heaven to achieve self-fulfilment. In analysis, it may be hard to see how this idea could ever be interesting in dramatic form. But the sparkling prose of the philosophic discussions is delightful for its wit, its audacity and its insight...