Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TELEPHONE POLES, by John Updike. Poems of grace, brevity, wit and wisdom by a man who was a light-versifier before he was a novelist...
Through the years, Connally's biting wit was feared by his Senate colleagues. He once snappishly advised New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges that he should "approach these matters with an open mind instead of an open mouth." He left Ohio Republican Robert Taft speechless with shock by accusing him of "cravenly going around begging for a few dirty, filthy votes." He warned New Hampshire's Bible-quoting Republican Charles Tobey: "Don't you ever shake that lanky Yankee finger at me." He attacked Chiang Kai-shek for "stealing" U.S. aid money, advised that "the trouble with...
...FAIR SISTER, by William Goyen. Savata Drew turned from dancing in a strip joint to becoming the most successful bishop in a Negro evangelical sect in Brooklyn. White Texan William Goyen tells her story with sympathy and wit...
Home showed soon enough who was running the Foreign Office. He impressed its clannish professionals with his industry and quick grasp of issues, delighted many others with his laconic wit. When an aide sent him a bale of documents with the note, "The Secretary of State will be interested in reading this," Home sent back the bundle with the reply: "A kind thought, but entirely erroneous. Please abstract." From the outset he adopted a show-me attitude to the Russians that was notably tougher than Macmillan's conciliatory approach. When Soviet fighters threatened Allied traffic in the Berlin...
Such oracular instincts bring a muscular moral to most Graham ballets, but she tempers her preachments with ironic wit and a healthy interest in all circumstances that cause the hips to quiver. Her choreography is full of strangely natural distortions of movements from life-leaps and spread-eagle stretches, fluttering fingers, crawls, great sweeps of outstretched legs, pelvic rolls and caresses.* Her open-air approach to sex makes her company more masculine than most-though the soft little scrimmage in her new Secular Games manages to make even her strong male dancers look disturbingly dainty...