Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Wit, Adler...
...Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (2) 4. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (3) 5. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (7) 6. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (4) 7. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (5) 8. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver 9. The Kennedy Wit, Adler 10. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop...
...facts (the pearl producer is not an oyster at all but a mollusk known as Meleagrina), sketches of local characters, and wordy, impressionistic evocations of the Breton countryside. At such moments a reader's attention may well wander, but for the most part Author Clark holds him with wit and verbal polish. It is the process known as tromper le lecteur...
...regular characters for the most part employ one acting technique: they speak rapidly and clearly in a variety of accents. The leading man, Spalding Gray, who plays Mirabell, is particularly poor. He has either been miscast, or misdirected. Supposedly the most attractive man in London, a wit and a charmer, he talks like a self-satisfied New England prep school master. Next to him the supposedly boorish Sir Wilfull Witwoud (John Peaks) is a gallant gentleman...
...take of Huntley and Brinkley. CBS's congenial Walter Cronkite carried all the burden of coordinating CBS's coverage, while Eric Sevareid would appear every so often as a kind of deus ex machina and deliver auroral analyses uninhibited by routine details, or a shaft of wit, as when he recalled H. L. Mencken's description of a convention orator as coming from "a home for extinct volcanoes...