Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Sholom Aleichem's story of a Russian village in 1905 becomes a lively musical with Luther Adler as Tevye, a dairyman who has wit, compassion, and five daughters...
...chronicle of carnival is a commonplace of fashionable fiction, but this attempt is anything but commonplace. Author Cole, a 32-year-old lecturer in the humanities at M.I.T., has wit, charm, timing, a flair with atmosphere, a felicity of verbal gesture, a feeling for character so insidious it persuades the reader that every person of the drama is really just an unlived aspect of his own self. An End to Chivalry is a beginning of brilliance...
...this tedious mishmash only Peter Bull, as Sergeant Buzfuz, shows an authentic Dickensian flair. Like a Daumier-lawyer print brought to life, he knows the precise satirical boiling point where caricature reveals character, where broadness of humor acquires the beef of wit. He is an estimable and melancholy measure of the show that might have been...
...odds over a ceiling seldom gets off the floor. Heston sweats, struggles up the scaffolding, and smears himself with color in a performance that merely adds another great stone profile to his gallery of semi-classical parts. Harrison, puncturing the most pontifical utterances with a tongue sharpened for wit, climbs roughshod over his talented hirelings-among them Bramante (Harry Andrews), the architect of St. Peter's, and Raphael (Tomas Milian), who appears to be impersonating a painting, not a painter...
...unfair than the judgment-most often passed by "professional liberals"-that Kennedy was basically shallow, aloof and uncommitted. "Some mistook his humor, gaiety and gentle urbanity for a lack of depth, and some mistook his cool calculation of the reasonable for a lack of commitment," writes Sorensen. "But his wit was merely an ornament to the earnest expressions that followed, and his reason reinforced his deep convictions and ideals...