Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time Him was the most futuristic of plays, a theatrical circus aping a carnival world. Cummings' only full-length play is still as exotic and volatile as the brightest contemporary drama. The poet's perceptiveness and wit, conveyed by over 50 characters in 21 scenes, saturates every inch of the Theatre Company of Boston's tiny stage...
...This Rough Magic, Stewart (6) 7. The Man, Wallace (7) 8. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (8) 9. Armageddon, Uris (9) 10. Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby NONFICTION 1. Reminiscences, MacArthur (1) 2. Markings, Hammarskjold (3) 3. My Autobiography, Chaplin (2) 4. The Italians, Barzini (4) 5. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (7) 6. The Warren Commission Report (6) 7. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (5) 8. Future of Man, De Chardin 9. The Words, Sartre 10. Harlow, Shulman...
...Kennedy Wit, Adler...
...loves the Beatles (he once turned on with their manager, in fact), Robert Kennedy (whom he voted for), Bob Dylan, and the Marx Brothers. C. Day Lewis, in some banter about the French Symbolists, was astounded at his erudition. Some preppies at the Signet, expecting perhaps to lunch wit some raving faggot, were amazed to find him "such a nice Jewish man". His much misrepresented poetry, while usually phantasmagoric and undisciplined, it powerful and genuinely serious...
...individual essays fall a little short of the magazine's standard of wit, pungency, and elegance. But several are valuable and most are interesting. Wolf Von Eckardt discusses suburban planning with a rare sense of political reality and social morality, dragging a crucial topic out of the sheltered enclaves of the architecture schools. In attacking institutionalized art and "Lincoln Center Culture" Robert Brustein covers familiar ground, but his courage and anger make the article both pointed and lively...