Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tells what it was like to rebuild his life after a major "cerebrovascular accident" (in layman's terms, a stroke) left him severely paralyzed four years ago. Hodgins wrote this book with ballpoint pens (he can no longer use a typewriter), but it has Mr. Blandings' old wit and wordcraft...
PHILIP EVERGOOD-Gallery 63, 721 Madison Ave. at 63rd. American-born, English-educated (Eton, Cambridge). Evergood saturates his paintings with biting wit and sharp social commentaries. His sensuous figures are caught in a Rabelaisian revelry of human rapacity and foolishness. Among the oils, watercolors and drawings: a wistful Look Homeward, Marilyn. Through...
...George McGhee, 52, the Texas oilman who has been U.S. Ambassador to Bonn for the past year, says carefully: "Of course, I am a married man. But even by Texas standards I don't see how any American can fail to observe and be impressed at the charm, wit and distinction of German women...
...well as an administrator, and just about every Sunday of the year he finds a vacant pulpit to preach from. His sermons are a far cry from the stem-winding exercises in dour purple prose that 19th century congregations loved. His language is spare and unchurchy, larded with wit and timely references to the secular world around him. Yet his message is always related more to eternal truths than to the morning's headlines...
...wish to participate in any debate on aesthetics of the Coop architecture, but feel it is important to point out that the architectural rendering provided by the Coop is grossly distorted, making reasonable judgments impossible. To wit, Palmer Street is made to appear broader and lighter than would actually be the case. In the Coop rendering, Palmer Street, curb to curb, is shown as 5.5 times the width of the West sidewalk, preserving present building and curb lines. Actually, by measure, Palmer Street is 3.3 times the sidewalk width (205/54 inches. The effect of this distortion is to make...