Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something wrong with the comic stage in America. "Neither the writers nor the actors seem to have a sense of 'style' in the theater. The English have a great and persistent tradition for high comedy--drawing-room comedy--and they manage the right blend of elegance and finish and wit in their plays and also in their productions. Here, we just don't have the tradition, and there are too many other pressures on the theater...
...surprised, when Estrella told me he'd been dead since January 21--12 days. But I won out anyway by dropping one of your writers' bon mots to the effect that "The DeMillenium was over." Well, sir, I can promise you that Estrella was dumbfounded by my wit...
...fantastic to the philosophical. Martin the Novelist is a Pirandelphic yarn in which characters search out the author and argue their rights and reality. The Wine of Paris presents a mad alcoholic, a most happy fella who thinks that other people are bottles of wine. With its cork-popping wit and full-bodied bouquet of pain, joy and wonder, Across Paris is vintage Ayme from a small but peerless literary vineyard...
...second volume in the Age of Roosevelt series--The Coming of the New Deal--establishes his claims in all these departments and cements his reputation for wit and clarity of organization. Of course, it would require a particularly inferior historian to make a dull story out of material provided by the chaotic first two years of the New Deal. But Schlesinger has given new depth to the history with which he worked and has produced a book of singular power...
...lies in the bone-dry wit and intelligence with which Novelist Austen ordered and fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...