Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This message set off a lively Battle of Texts. Author A. P. Herbert, M.P. and literary wit who rarely misses a chance for a well-publicized controversy, began it by writing to the Times: "And these are the people whom His Holiness the Pope enjoins us to consider with forgiveness and charity! Sir, I count myself a Christian; but Christianity as expounded on the higher levels today seems to be less & less distinguishable from feebleness of mind...
...mixture of deplorable characters and homiletic essays is deliberately artificial, packed with wit, rarely dull. Its basic theme is the Huxleyan conviction that world reform must begin in the individual soul, and that men may enter "the Divine Ground" of eternity only by a regime of selflessness and contemplation. Nor should man imagine that death will save him the trouble of choosing between flesh and spirit. Author Huxley's alarming notion is that the same choice will confront all men in the hereafter...
Regaining his composure, Laster found himself looking up at Lloyd A. Wood, instructor in Chemistry and tutor at Lowell House. Laster, whose athletic skill is exceeded only by his sharp wit, informed Wood that he was badly in need of practice in doing forward rolls, cartwheels, and handsprings. Thereupon the enthusiastic Freshman suggested that he should be sentenced to two extra gym periods a week, adding merrily, "Let the punishment fit the crime...
...Columbia University, students flocked to savor "Uncle Charlie's" bottomless knowledge and quinine wit. In 1913, after months of delving in the dust-choked records of the U.S. Treasury Department, he published An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, suggesting that the Founding Fathers belonged to a group influenced as much by material self-interest as by love of liberty. Conservatives exploded...
...Chris-Craft speed. boat, two cars in every garage, a home in the country, a penthouse, and an egg in his beer, has, in our opinion, failed to deal with a question which is destined to present one of the most controversial issues of the postwar world. To wit: Will the returning G.I. be able to maintain the same balance of power in his home that he enjoyed in the halcyon days, or will the female of the species assert herself and declare the "old order" relegated to the limbo of nostalgic memories? . . . Upon settlement of this question rests...