Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit - watching agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. An excellent biography of the brilliant and irreverent Prime Minister whose gaiety and wit infuriated his Victorian contemporaries even as they illuminated the issues and pretenses of his time...
...SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Novelist Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) has pulled Joyce's astronomical Dublin masterpiece into the general reader's field of vision simply by cutting out two-thirds of it. There is still plenty of wit and wordplay left...
...balloon-breasted vamp. Co-Hosts Mary Martin and Robert Preston harmonized about marital disharmony in a scene from I Do! I Do!; pint-sized Norman Wisdom sang the razzmatazz title song from Walking Happy. It was Broadway at its belt-'em-out best, a show with pace, style, wit, suspense, and the kind of well-practiced polish that makes all the slapdash TV spectaculars look tawdry by comparison...
DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. An Oxford historian's excellent biography of the brilliant and irreverent Prime Minister whose gaiety and wit infuriated his Victorian contemporaries even as they illuminated the issues-and pretenses-of his time...