Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel. Filled to overflowing with weird characters and wild situations, the play nonetheless contains a large number of less funny scenes along with the gems. And the time element at last predominates. After the first two hours, as after the first two volumes of Henry Esmond, no amount of wit or slapstick can keep the audience from desiring a rapid...
...This city primitive, who died in 1957, was privy to the artistic life of an era from the Armory Show through the Beaux Arts balls of the '20s to the Union Square Fire Brigade Party (1930) in honor of Brancusi. He captured it all with studied naivete, gleaming wit and private jokes. Through...
...National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., lacks Young's experience in dealing with high echelons of the U.S. business community. He has neither the inventiveness of CORE's James Farmer nor the raw militancy of SNICK's John Lewis nor the bristling wit of Author James Baldwin. He did not make his mark in the entertainment field, where talented Negroes have long been prominent, or in the sciences and professions where Negroes have, almost unnoticed, been coming into their own (see color pages). He earns no more money than some plumbers ($10,000 a year...
...thought that Johnson lacks the qualities for that sort of performance. "Although he has an alert mind," wrote New York Post Washington Columnist William V. Shannon, "he does not have Mr. Kennedy's blotting-paper memory for facts and details. He does not have Mr. Kennedy's wit...
...squarely on Mr. Dooley. It has been more than 30 years since this genial bartender with the rich Irish brogue dispensed his political wisdom in the nation's newspapers, but it still has a round, rich taste. In those days, Mr. Dooley was called the "wit and censor of the nation"; and his creator, that hard-drinking, fun-loving Chicago newspaperman, Finley Peter Dunne was the best political satirist the U.S. has ever produced...