Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father, Marcus, ostracized by his Alabama townspeople but dominating the town, is as fascinating a character as Playwright Hellman has drawn. Cruel-cold-blooded, with a sardonic wit and a partly pretentious feeling for culture, he cares only, and then half-incestuously, for his daughter Regina. His treatment of his wife, along with her knowledge of his guilty past, has made her a violent hysteric; his contempt for his sons, the power-craving Ben and the spineless Oscar, has made them bitterly hostile. The fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when...
...directing, acting and technical talents as $3 million could buy, has bought himself a sure-fire hit-with a little to spare. Like most good mass entertainments, this picture has occasional moments of knowing hokum; but unlike most sure-fire movies, it was put together with good taste, honesty, wit-and even a strong suggestion of guts...
...Pillar of Fire, Fair at Sorochinsk, Fancy Free, Interplay, the new Facsimile, and a wide range of more familiar numbers. Ballets like Fancy Free have retained surprisingly well the fresh impact that made them famous originally, and the Ballet Theatre still treats them with just the right combination of wit and energy...
...have included not only biographical information but legends and anecdotes. Their most valuable device, however, is the use of old English poetry to show that the "new" is part of one great literature. Example: they quote the following lines by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, the 17th Century London wit...
along with the following by E. E. Cummings, wit...