Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Henry Miller's first novel, Tropic of Cancer, came out in Paris in 1931, it was greeted with shocked silence, snickers, or the sound of licking lips. Its admirers took its weedy profusion of four-letter words for daring wit and convention-defying "art." Miller became the hero of Bohemian barflies and Greenwich Villagers everywhere...
...Wit & Wind. Running to almost half a million words, Laski's book is both a general political history of the U.S. and a detailed analysis of American professions, trades, culture and state and federal governments. Every aspect of American life is judged from the standpoint of the militant, orthodox socialist who believes that government planning must replace free enterprise as the cornerstone of democratic life. A dependence on stock socialist phrases thus flaws many parts of the book. The American Democracy, for all its numerous flashes of donnish wit, is also windily repetitive, and some times dated...
...plays, has described him as "perhaps the greatest of all impressionists in black & white." In color, Topolski's impressionism is more lurid than deft. He is at his best doing people. Shaw himself appears (in black & white) as a shaggy, willowy old pantaloon, ready to explode with the wit & wisdom of a ripe...
...have admired you from afar and have loved your little old magazine like a brother. But now I hate you, I hate you. My reason? Your report of the studies of one Professor N. Tinbergen (a likely name!) in re the procreative functions of sticklebacks [TIME, May 24], to wit...
Joint instruction backfires, to wit, as Harvard boys who want to take in type-writing will be allowed to enroll...