Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show (Words About Music) were scuttled by Los Angeles' station KCOP after Levant began neglecting music to make off-color comments on such interesting compositions as Marilyn Monroe and Richard Nixon. Moaned his ex-sponsor: "The show got too dirty. We want to sell carpets, not controversies." Confessed Wit Levant: "I was outraged at my taste . . . I'm like a middle-class James Joyce-extremely-self-conscious. The station left it up to my own judgment, which I don't have...
...really cut the mustard!" Three years ago Jimmy was driving a truck to support his family and idly plunking away at his uke in the evenings ("I dream-I go 'bonk, bonk, bonk'-I just fool around"), when he became inspired by the high wit of a local rock 'n' roll disc jockey named Red Blanchard and enrolled in a 96-lesson musical correspondence course ("I learned to read music in the first ten and quit"). He bought a tape recorder and started strumming his own tunes, singing the lyrics aloud in an adenoidal tenor...
...Strada. A bittersweet fable concerning a half-wit girl and a brutal carnival strongman; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...
...oracular old man in knickerbockers loved controversy, but he might not have liked the one going on in London only six years since his death. To mark the centennial of the birth of the 20th century's No. 1 playwright, wit and sage, London's critics turned their pens to fresh appraisals of George Bernard Shaw. To an extent that aroused passionate Shavians to cries of protest, many of the appraisers found both the man and his works wanting. Sample second thoughts of those who joined in the sport of tearing down...
...literature, Shaw is the spinster aunt. By this I do not mean to imply that he was sexless ... It is only in his writing that the aunt in him rises up, full of warnings, wagged fingers and brandished umbrellas . . . Shaw was unique. An Irish aunt so gorgeously drunk with wit is something English literature will never see again. But there is fruit for the symbolist in the fact that, prolific as he was, he left no children...