Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Felix's music, listeners heard a few characteristically lovely lieder-like tunes. But most of the score was more reminiscent of Mozart than of Mendelsohn. Considering that when Felix wrote it Mozart had been in his grave for nearly 40 years, there was little of wit or originality...
...there was also an old complaint. Said the Daily Mail: "A bewildering muddle of a play." The Daily Express agreed: "[The playgoers] were . . . absorbed in laughing at his agile wit and trying to puzzle out just what he was getting at. The cast shared their bewilderment. At the end of the dress rehearsal, some of them were saying: 'Beautiful words, but what do some of them mean?'" By week's end, it seemed a good bet that West End and Broadway audiences would also soon get a chance to laugh-and puzzle over-The Cocktail Party...
When Lincoln got off the stagecoach in November 1834, for his first session in the state legislature, Vandalia was 15 years old, still mainly logs and mud. That winter, and the next as well, his principal achievement was to make himself known as a wit in the candlelit House chamber where the legislators drank and argued in the evenings...
Just about everything was the way Frank Boykin wanted it-lovable and liquid. The Vice President of the U.S., his wit gracious and his stories mellow, was master of ceremonies. Republicans and Democrats got up to tell what a fine fellow easygoing Sam Rayburn is, which came easy, for most of them think he is. Sixty-four-year-old Frank Boykin, a steam-engine of a man with a 50-inch chest, was somewhat awed by what he had wrought. "Here we have the representatives of all the good people of the world," said he. "I have counted...
...very good it is," exclaimed Horizon Editor Cyril Connolly, "how brilliant and true and funny and beautifully written and intelligently thought and felt." Less susceptible readers are likely to emerge from The Oasis with drier emotions. Author McCarthy's wit sparkles very nicely as long as she is standing the false gods of contemporary intellectualism on their heads and displaying her theory-ridden victims against a backdrop composed of the simple facts of life. Nonetheless, most of The Oasis has just the same fatal flaw as the Utopia it describes-it is built entirely of disembodied ideas and peopled...