Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honig's willingness to treat the carnival of humanity on a moral level and his remarkable wit and facility in doing so give his poems a strange quality that is at once disturbing, provocative, and entertaining. They are not more exercises with words and meanings, nor are they pedogogical recitals of moral truth. They are experience, and like all things true their connotations are deep, direct, and mysterious...
...kind of prosperous complacency. Calm Clement Attlee hastened about in a Humber Hawk chauffeured by his wife Violet, got an affectionate wel come everywhere. City-bred Herbert Mor rison, the party's No. 2, headed for Lancashire with his bride, a Lancashire lass, to try his cockney wit in a strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll his rich Welsh voice behind Bevanite candidates and Bevanite notions. In a manner reminiscent of days gone by, when he likened the Tories to "vermin...
...onetime literary, sometimes sanguinary critic for London's News Chronicle, British Wit Stephen (Gamesmanship} Potter disclosed, in the New York Times, the Borgian tactics of his former trade in a piece called "The Art of Reviewmanship." Essence of the art: "How to be one up on the author without actually tampering with the text." In ex-Critic Potter's sardonic view, the problem boils down to showing that "you yourself . . . should have written the book, if you had the time, and since you hadn't, you are glad that someone has. although it is obvious that...
...Yale Law School (class of '31). He joined the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, lawyers for Big Steel, and was its associate counsel during the investigation of the steel industry by the Temporary National Economic Committee shortly before World War II. A methodical worker with a quiet wit and a knack for getting along with people, Blough became U.S. Steel's general solicitor in 1942, and executive vice president four years...
...there was more than that. While the smoke from fire-brigade activities still reeked by Waban where they were washed, the this' breed arrived at the Massachusetts State House to peddle sacred, clammy cod. Photo-poetic interpretations of all the fun and wit and merriment here not a tone for the Spring Fashion Insert intelligentsia...