Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Previous productions of The Fantasticks I've seen have provoked similar crises of faith. If you've heard "Try to Remember," you've heard the show's moral: to wit, "without a hurt the heart grows hollow." Now if you read that with a Phyllis McGinley intonation--as is often done--you've got a pretty saccharine play on your hands. The Leverett House Opera Society has chosen a different tack. The prevailing tone of the evening is a cool, balanced wit. Rather like a mellow Oscar Wilde propounding the importance of being burnished. The results are marvelous...
...only viewers who probably even know he exists are the few who stay tuned to Huntley-Brinkley after the news is over to hear the snatch of Beethoven as the credits roll up the screen. Huntley and Brinkley have always been those two congenial fellows with the wry wit who make digestion a little bit easier every night after dinner. They became something quite different during the Democratic convention. Their public turned on them, criticized them, and Northshield wonders...
Seldom does Cooke slip into his genre's pitfall: bad amateur anthropology. Their wit not withstanding, his comments on the effect of air conditioning on New York family life do fall into this class, as they become contrived expositions of trivia. He is safer--and much more entertaining--when he sticks to the looser descriptive style of which he is a master...
...theorems. He is forever barking out class-conscious slogans at what he regards as an inattentive crew of playgoing idiots. The Teutonic condescension of the man finally becomes as irritating as it is boring. Inspired direction can mask the defects of monumental didacticism, the preachiness of a Shaw without wit. This Director Vance fails to do. In Houston right now, the playhouse is the thing...
...Shakespeare. "The funny, far-out menu is a must these days," states Manhattan Restaurateur Shelly Fireman. "The majority of people who dine out are bored with each other and need something to break down the barriers. A way-out menu gives them something to talk about." Alas, the wit is insipid. Along with the "martini-bopper's special," Fireman's own Tin Lizzie restaurant revels in marginalia: "Sit down in our barber chair and enjoy the last living 5? shoeshine, done with real champagne." Minneapolis' Cork & Fork follows each listing with an entry like "Lionel Barrymore...