Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pets or Meat. The gem is A Sense of History, directed by Mike Leigh. Jim Broadbent, who wrote this deft monologue, plays a squire of Churchillian mien and Sweeney Todd meanness. Not since Browning's My Last Duchess has an aristocrat confessed his crimes with such self-lacerating wit...
...brighter side, the spectacle of so many intelligent people becoming exercised over the possibility of plagiarism serves as a reminder that the subject is of more than academic concern. The theft of ideas or expressions degrades the currency of information exchanges. True wit, after all, is Nature to advantage dressed; what oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed (Pope, Essay on Criticism...
Three years ago, according to The Harvard Crimson, the University was "being invaded"--and, the lead paragraph concluded with a splash of Crimson wit, "it's not by extraterrestrials...
...Cinderella punctuate the second and third Acts. In the ballroom dance, 12 couples richly dressed in deep crimson embroidered with gold, intricately and rhythmically weave through the space. The court jester, performed by Daniel Meja, captivated the audience with his surprising and sly movement, expressing through dance a complex wit. Lastly, Prince Charming, performed by Lazlo Berdo, penetrated the space with his deep chaussees and powerful tour jetes. Despite his technical expertise, his movements felt princely stiff, counterbalancing Cinderella's fairy-tale flatness. While this combination leaves the first pas de deux lacking, the tenderness and grace of two lovers...
What went wrong? Trillin, a New Yorker staff writer, sets out to find the truth, armed only with his wit and a handful of clues. En route Trillin recalls a time when striving was considered something a gentleman just didn't do. After all, why should he? Postgraduate privileges were guaranteed to go along with his Yale sheepskin. And then came the '60s: the Vietnam War, the civil rights struggle, the sexual revolution. "There is a common feeling among people my age," Trillin says, "that somehow the rules got changed in the middle of the game...