Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play even has scattered bright spots of its own: Playwright Appell shows a knack for brightly stenciling familiar characters and situations, and if his dialogue seldom has wit, it often has sass. Thanks to a good cast, Lullaby coaxes a certain amount of routine amusement, first out of Mama's-Boy Meets Girl, then out of depicting home and mother as more like oil and water. But to such standbys of comedy it brings no new insight and only limited verve. Hence it is forced into utter disregard for tone-one minute realistic comedy, the next shameless shenanigans...
Though Owen's wit and showmanship are not entirely reserved for the lecture platform, his talents are displayed there to best advantage. The figure of a slim, slightly graying man, with an engaging smile, nervous gesture, and rapid-fire delivery is becoming increasingly well-known. In his office, however, Owen is far removed from the elevated atmosphere of the auditorium. Besieged with phone calls, his desk piled high with papers, the Chairman of the History Department "is just trying to hang on through the winter...
...sternly suppressed her own personality, she everywhere gives proof of her very personal taste and wit: with a resolute aristocracy of method, she is as much above her characters as she is outside them. If her finest talent is for social comedy, her particular genius is for suggesting a stageful of people, a whole social scene...
...partakes of all that is finest in American literature--the sense of nature and of revelation of Emerson and Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner, the sense of social forces of Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Steinbeck, and the linguistic facility of Thurber and Perelman. Add to this the satiric ability of George Orwell...
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11: Dilletantes as well as concentrators should enjoy the History of England, history 142b, covering the period from 1815 to the present. A rarity in the history department, it coats and hare facts with an analytic approach, David E. Owen's suave wit makes the saver 11 lectures easy to digest...