Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUPERMAN. Shavian wit frosted with acting brilliance makes this spoof of the courting and mating process a tasteful dramatic delight...
...Kennedy Wit, Adler...
POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr intermittently breaks through the brittle ice of wit into the chilly waters of insight in this pensively playful study of the ability to love and write. Alan Bates as a kind of BurtonThomas-Behan composite displays the kind of flypaper charm that women love to get stuck with...
Behind the daily wit of Peanuts, concludes Short, lies an essentially Christian view of reality. Its characters, of course, act out a comedy. But that is precisely what Christianity is, a divine comedy defined by Soren Kierkegaard as "the most humorous point of view in the history of the world." Such fundamental doctrines as the Resurrection, the Incarnation, the Holy Spirit, have always been an offense to cold reason-"a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles," as St. Paul put it. In fact, says Short, one literally has to become like a child to believe such things...
...North Carolina in the morning. Thus begins what the reader fears will be just another could-he-or-couldn't-he-go-home-again book. And it is, save for a couple of differences. For one, First Novelist Anne Tyler, 22, approaches commonplaces with uncommon empathy, insight and wit; and for another, her protagonist has to address himself to an additional puzzle. The chill on Manhattan's Morningside Heights is nothing compared with that in the hearts of his family...