Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist intellectuals, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was more than a gentleman - he was a bourgeois Bolshevik. He exuded respectability, which - next to an aura of romantic criminality - is the quality middle-class Marxists most prize. Was not his cousin Biographer Lytton Strachey, whose bland ironies and subacid wit had done as much as any one intellectual force to sap his generation's faith in education, the church, the state? Cousin Lytton had knocked the notions of pre-Communist intellectuals into a half-cocked hat so successfully that Cousin John had only to pick up the pieces...
...Senator to take the floor." Boo! The Senator reached the microphone, white and shaken. "Fellow Democrats," he be gan,"I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning. ..." Nothing was plain after that; through the surging roar of catcalls and the stamping of feet, whistles and bleacher wit, disjointed phrases echoed out of the loudspeakers: I thought democracy had returned to Louisiana...
...Caroline of Brunswick, consort of George IV (Regent of England from 1811 to 1820). This statement is not quite true (besides an Italian biography translated in 1907, there has been the more recent Queen Caroline by Sir Edward Parry), but Author Coxe's sympathy and well-oiled wit make his biography of much-abused Caroline a pleasant addition to Regency history...
...Gloria Jean sing Burke & Monaco's l Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire, Meet the Sun Halfway and Pessimistic Character. Alone, Bing Crosby sings ll I Had My Way. This is very easy on the ear, but along with it spectators have to take the Swedish wit, El Brendel, and a story in which, for the sake of Gloria Jean, Singer Crosby abandons the carefree life of a structural steelworker to become a restaurateur. As practiced by Singer Crosby, the restaurant business turns out to be an excuse for a second helping of such old-timers...
Burgess Meredith as George is adequate, but Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie is a too-conventional half-wit, even to the throaty voice and harsh r's. The bit parts are the heart of the movie, and from start to finish are woven into powerful moods of pity, despair, and humility...