Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even when he fans, Viereck is refreshingly flamboyant; popping with energy and imagination, he gives every verse the old college try. Occasionally, as when he impersonates a pine tree singing its pitchy heart out to a pining rose, he can fall flat on his face. In the better works, wit gives weight to his wobbly lyricism. Viereck is at his typical best in a poem inspired by a newspaper headline: GLACIER ACCIDENT KILLS SKI PARTY; ONE BODY STILL MISSING. Impersonating the lost, icebound skier, he wrote...
...illumine his Illuminations, Choreographer Ashton had atomized both Rimbaud's violent life and his poetry, put the pieces back together in a sequence of nine charade-like "danced pictures." The pictures were full of familiar Ashton trademarks-the wit of Wedding Bouquet, the subtle fancy of Facade, the gay, gregarious pageantry and a little of the slapstick of Cinderella. And there were salty passages indeed; Rimbaud's (Nicholas Magallanes) painfully sexual grapple with Profane Love (Melissa Hayden) was both lurid and profane...
...Devil's Disciple. Shaw's tongue-in-cheek, neck-in-noose melodramatics of the American Revolution, rising to a loud barrage of wit (TIME...
...master of satire and quick wit, Attila has made the calypso, often called Trinidad's "living newspaper," a potent force in local politics. Under his real name, Raymond Quevedo, he has been elected on the Labor Party ticket to Port-of-Spain's city council...
Phillips Brooks House offered a basement room, which some wit soon dubbed "the black hole of Calcutta." Although students could cat a homemade lunch there and play ping-pong, there was no doubt about the room's inadequacy. Finally, in 1935, with aid from a special fund, the University opened the Commuter Center in Dudley...