Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice guy, George Peppard scarcely makes the alternative seem attractive -he has that I-went-to-college-but-it-didn't-do-any-good look of the sort of Harvardman who couldn't even get a job in Washington. And Audrey Hepburn, though she plays with fluent wit and gives the customers a spectacular fashion show, isn't really Holly. Holly isn't the sort of girl who wears her rue with a diffidence. Holly is the sort of girl who thinks that guilt is less valuable than solid gold...
...standards of excellence of modern English light fiction--comfortable clarity and generous wit--are, like Shakespeare's standards, centered in that purest of human pleasures, a garden, this one the size of shire, and tended until her recent death by the softly malicious and completely delightful Angela Thirkell. Those writers intelligent enough to acknowledge Mrs. Thirkell's leadership (like Nevil Shute and 'Miss Read') have always enjoyed the quiet success their sound judgment deserved; those rebellious Angries (like John Braine, John Wain and that lot) who have ignored her example have inevitably become eminently unreadable. Their prose becomes barren, sluggish...
...book is, in fact, rather upsetting. Mr. Wilson has in him the wit of a Kingsley Amis and the erudition of a Dorothy L. Sayers, but he will insist on writing by the standards of the bracken. He is, indeed, in danger of choking off these talents altogether; and that, of course, would be no small misfortunte...
...Beauty Part is not a collection of isolated gags. From Greenwich Village to Hollywood, the play is stitched throughout with the oblique, neatly sutured, thematic wit of S. J. Perelman. The display of words is, in fact, so dazzling that any mail-order Melville in the audience must get the message along with the fellow from Yale: "Lay off the Muses. It's a very tough dollar...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). PREMIERE of a string of half-hours in which Brinkley will be allowed to spray his acerbic wit. This week's target: roadside billboards. Color...