Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eighth or ninth version of anything (except Beethoven's symphonies) is likely to seem less fresh than the first, and for all its bustle Hercules hasn't quite the wit to make one forget Aladdin. But one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, especially if it's Pegasus. Sixty years after Snow White, Hercules proves that Walt's art form is still sassy and snazzy...
...heart of the play is the sparring between Wilde (Michael Emerson) and his courtroom antagonists. The flip, willfully perverse Wildean wit suffered the rude shock of having to defend itself under pitiless legal questioning. Asked if something he has written is true, Wilde replies, "I rarely think anything I write is true." He was a victim, of course, of Victorian prudery but also of the perennial clash between the aesthetic and the moral, the realm of art and the realm of life. Wilde realizes too late that it's an unfair fight. "One says things flippantly," he apologizes wanly...
...only hope to bring to my work the same wit and enthusiasm that Professor Schacter brings to his," wrote the student who nominated Schacter, recalling one Saturday morning when Schacter delayed a family outing in order to deliver his comments on the student's thesis drafts personally...
Like Carnesale, he, too, watches his words and wit, but he does so with a softer, more personable touch, without the ox-like force of a man who can clear administrative hassles like so many acres of tangled prairie. How he will negotiate the vast and wild thicket remains to be seen...
...Behind all the wit and politesse is a very smart man," says Todd...