Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor Allen, the sixth man to hold the post, thinks that Harper's present circulation (159,357) is adequate, though he frankly wishes he "had the wit to get more without doing anything I consider unworthy of the magazine." With or without wit, Editor Allen can still attract top-notch writers for bottom-drawer rates. The probable reason, says Allen, is that "we deliberately edit for a minority of educated . . . people . . . the real leaders of America. We do not [try to] appeal to the millions of people who do not really know how to read or care to make...
Scripted and directed by Joseph L. (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, All About Eve is probably Hollywood's closest original approach to the bite, sheen and wisdom of high comedy. It crackles with smart, smarting dialogue. Sometimes at too earnest length, but mostly with wit and always with insight, it jabs at the quirks and follies of show business and its "concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children." It matches some penetrating characterizations with top-drawer acting. With all these merits, plus a full-blooded story, the picture is absorbing enough to ride over...
...best of the living English novelists (E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green) write with intelligence, wit and moral purpose. They are deeply concerned with the world and its fate. But they can seldom dig into the insides of ordinary human experience, reveling in its meat and marrow, the way the old boys did. By comparison with the comic expansiveness of a Dickens or the moody intensity of a Hardy, they seem merely to be giving life a quick, light-fingered skim...
...rubbing together of Law School minds may produce better grades and better lawyers, and the rubbing together of G.S.A.S. minds may produce anything from a new theory of the universe to a keener analysis of Shavian wit. But a cross-rubbing of the two is what we need most in these days of General Education...
Bung-nosed A. P. ("Peck") Herbert, 60, novelist, wit, and Independent M.P. for Oxford, took to the pages of London's Sunday Graphic to give a vigorous pat on the back to Britain's Chief Representative to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, with a sideswipe at one of Sir Gladwyn's chief adversaries, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob Malik...