Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations. to Mr. Alec Gushing on his wit rather than his memory. It seems that he or someone forgot the prologue to the Squaw Valley drama. Might it not have been more accurate to mention the name of Marti Arrougé, the young Basque who trod the warm earth of Squaw Valley through many young summers following the bands of his father's sheep, who lost his only brother in one of its clear lakes and whose nimble skis have caressed its every slope? It was Arrougé who was the original partner of Wayne Poulsen; together they supplied...
...Grossman's hero is more ridiculous than his victims, and the social vices he flays seem almost attractive compared to the empty reaches of his own sick soul. But Grossman, in spite of long stretches of overwriting and more than a trace of downright vulgarity, clearly has talent, wit and a savage satirical bite...
...hard diamond of logic, and sometimes the brass of sheer arrogance. Tall, gangling TV Star (Medic; Have Gun, Will Travel) Richard Boone brings to his Lincoln the homely gravity of the Mathew Brady photographs. His drawling voice begins like a modest rivulet picking its way over pebbles of country wit and wisdom, then swiftens into a stream of social inquiry and protest, and finally cascades in a thundering waterfall of conscience aroused: "A vast portion of the American people do not look upon slavery as a very little thing. They look upon it as a vast moral evil...
Life of the Party. In Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, Concord magazine discussed a woman who works in a mine, said: "Her unique experiences as processed by a lively wit make the lady miner-when she takes off her trousers and puts on her cosmetics-the most amusing evening companion south of the Sahara...
...this way: George S. Kaufmann was a truly witty man but he let his wit turn into wise-crack; and his successors, who are generally less witty, are even more fond of wisecracking, and these are the men who are setting the pace today. But this is enough on the theater...