Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hugh Sidey [Oct. 10] to assume that President Nixon was elected by his clever "use of cosmetics and electronics" is to assume that we "middle Americans" (whom you newsmen like to champion) are too dull of wit to comprehend the issues that confronted us in the recent election...
...Washington cocktail circuit, and perhaps with some reason. "Being at a dinner with Burns is like being back in the high school classroom," says an acquaintance. His manner is relentlessly professorial; even his doodlings while he talks on the telephone are architecturally precise. But he occasionally shows a dry wit; he has been heard to speak of one politician as "a gentleman and a demagogue...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May's Adaptation and Terrence McNally's Next are a happy combination of funny one-acters. Both plays are directed by Miss May with her usual wit and comic perception...
...writer of first-rate prose. As a journal of his two years and three months as U.S. Ambassador to India (April 1961-July 1963), the volume is inevitably filled with history's largely forgotten and largely forgettable moments. But scarcely a paragraph is unredeemed by a flash of wit or a quietly neo-Machiavellian observation...
Indian history is notoriously full of broken covenants, callous horse soldiers and greedy land-grabbers-all encouraged from Washington. Though Vine Deloria dwells on such things with savage wit in this remarkable book, he is more bitterly concerned with the recent past and the havoc worked among the long-suffering tribes in the past 20 years by less officially baneful agencies-compassionate missionaries, humane anthropologists and liberal bureaucrats. Their doings, says Deloria, justifiably provoked a Sioux leader to tell a congressional hearing that what the Indians really want is "a leave-us-alone...