Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, the major share of the total profit ($2,212,709) reported by the New York Times Co. came from a Canadian paper mill in which the Times holds a 42% interest. It still seems to pay better to turn out blank paper than to have the wit to say something...
...most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic scene. He describes General Washington's arriving late...
...Nevertheless, the profligate is not without honor in Britain; Only Two Can Play is currently breaking box-office records there. Its success is understandable. Based on a bestselling novel (That Uncertain Feeling) by Kingsley Amis, the script releases plenty of low-pressure fizz and an occasional slow leak of wit ("I was plowing through your novel the other day," the hero murmurs sweetly to an author he detests. "We have an unsigned first edition-they're the rare ones, aren't they?"). But what matters most is Comedian Sellers. He is perfectly hilarious as the lubricious bookworm...
Warming to the evening's mood, the President's wit ranged widely. Recalling his efforts to persuade the U.S. to drink milk as an aid to the dairy industry, he said: "I am certainly enjoying being with you newsmen this evening. None of you know how tough it is to have to drink milk three times a day." He used the occasion to return the press-conference barbs thrown frequently at him, as at President Eisenhower, by Newswoman Sarah McClendon. "I saw my wife's picture watching a snake charmer in India," Kennedy said. "As soon...
...more uneasy events." Charles Marowitz' dispatch to the Village Voice called it "the excrescence of the New Drama which has been vacuumed of half a dozen plays and emptied into a new container," and added that "the [leading] actress and the playwright both get splattered when the wit hits...