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...wrote that? Sir Thomas More. A knight, a saint, a humanist, a wit, a martyr and a man, famously, for all seasons. And yet a man so besotted by the idea of summer, evidently, that he would foist that season's worst weather off onto winter...
Harvard's left needs to discover a sense of humor and not shrink from using caustic wit and sarcasm. It could also benefit from a more combative stance. Mockery can be an especially effective device for combating the hypocrisy or ridiculous obsessions of the right...
...talked-about woman in America. TIME Critic John Elson writes that Boothe seemingly had it all: she was a headlining journalist (for Life and the original Vanity Fair); a successful playwright (?The Women?); a two-term Congresswoman from Connecticut; and later U.S. ambassador to Italy. She had a merciless wit and stunning looks to go with her smarts. Drawing on interviews with family, friends and Luce herself, as well as her papers in the Library of Congress, ?Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce? by Sylvia Jukes Morris (Random House; 562 pages; $30) is the first part...
...minutes of great make-out music. What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers? murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham?s talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he?s probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears...
Everyone involved in Not Much Fun should be commended for taking Parker's work seriously. Despite the stories' genuine wit and highly-charged emotional undertones, they could easily be used to mock the culture of the 1920s...