Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. By adding nonstop wit and a lovable caddishness to the standard picture of a TV wheelerdealer, Playwright Ronald Alexander has boosted the industry's ratings-at least on Broadway's laugh meter...
...manner obscured by a derisive myth, Harold Stassen bears somewhat the hallmark of a Republican Stevenson. Though his wit is an auxiliary to (rather than a component of) his thought, and though he relishes politics, unlike the reluctant Democrat, Stassen shares with Stevenson, a first-hand respect for thought and an intellectual boldness, along with a reputation for defeat...
...intellectual isolation, authentic Irish genius was stunted; basic good instincts went strangely awry; and some of America's best-known rogues had Irish names. James M. Curley had wit, verve, and a burning sense of social injustice, but hardly any sense of personal integrity. Father Charles Coughlin, broadcasting in a mellifluous baritone from his pulpit in Detroit, berated the callous bankers and businessmen who, he said, had brought on the Depression. But like Curley, Coughlin had no positive remedies; his Sunday sermons became exercises in slander. Before he was finally forced off the air by dwindling financial support, Coughlin...
...soften into kindness, flash a satiric comment on his own words, or reveal a spirited man who impetuously offers to sacrifice his life. Micheal Ehrhardt plays General Burgoyne, a character whose ability to mock an absurd situation resembles Dick's; he is impressive in his dignity, biting in his wit. Even Pamela Harris's opening gesture foreshadows the careful details of her performance: she awakens, and consciously assumes her dour, self-righteous expression...
Filtered through the mad wit of Billy Brown, these grotesque gyrations sometimes threaten to spin out of control into pure centrifugal farce. But at his best Novelist Miller has come close to creating a comic epic celebrating the lunatic fringes of a genuine American phenomenon-a young nation's yearning for final answers and impossible perfections, its fears that a great dream has somehow been laid waste in the pillaging of a rich continent for material wellbeing...