Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mining concern; of throat cancer; in London. A carrot-topped Irishman who was brought up on a remote Australian sheep station, Bracken went to England at 15, began honing his invective facility and absorbing the wide sophistication that made him famous in Whitehall, in Mayfair and the City for wit and eloquence. In the '30s Bachelor Bracken strongly seconded Winston Churchill's criticism of the British government's Nazi-appeasing foreign policy under Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Baldwin scored Bracken as "Winston's faithful chela" (Hindu for disciple), lived to see him rise...
...rheumatoid arthritis that confined him to a wheelchair; of pneumonia; in Denver. Lawyer Millikin, who turned to politics from a successful career in the oil business, was a Taft-supporting conservative, a tariff protectionist, a tax expert, and the portrait of a Senator in his look and bearing. His wit was cutting; in a debate he once remarked: "If the distinguished Senator will allow me, I will try to extricate him from his thoughts...
Author Guerard (The Hunted, Maquisard), 43, is a Texas-born Francophile who is currently professor of English at Harvard. He writes with a Gallic coolness and clarity, and with the sure French eye for the inhuman qualities of the human condition. This novel, his fifth, has both wit and wisdom, but his major characters are fated to sound like literary echoes: charming as Christiane is, she has been met before more charmingly in the pages of Colette; Anthony, in his bedridden sloth, his antisocial despairs, his wounded intellectual cries, has slouched through a long line of novels ranging from Ivan...
...trust reality, doubtful of "justice" in the universe, and inclined to believe that the discovery of cosmic chaos was not a triumph for man. It only sustained the defeat. But Cabell didn't let things go at anticipating Sartre and the Left Bank anti-ontologists. He did believe in wit and beauty, and symbolistic meaning. Images in Jurgen arise from both his imagination and his erudition...
...Berrigan to keep going until he could scrape together enough money to buy control of the World for himself. Today Berrigan is such a national institution that diplomats phone him openly for guidance, and Thai officials consult him on politics- foreign and domestic. What is more, by his wit and wits, Editor Berrigan has turned his World into one of the genuinely cultured pearls of the East...