Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! invites the literate mind to a banquet with a consistently ironic, sometimes macabre American wit. So thoroughly does Hal Holbrook immerse himself in the psyche of Clemens that his performance seems like an uncanny transmigration of souls...
...fabulous hills and by now mythical Pedernales River were reduced to their actual proportions, to sere ranch land and meandering stream. Next to them, the President suddenly appeared lifesize, and shucking both his White House mantle and "jes' folks" delivery, he reminisced about his beginnings with pride, enthusiasm, wit and spontaneity...
...finding his own identity because he's too busy writing about those of his characters, a celebrity who laughs at the thought of being one. He is somewhat of a modern-day Mr. Bennet with his mixture of "quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice." Nothing escapes his easy wit -- the world, his critics, himself. There is a definite gleam in his eyes when he speaks of his bad reviews. "They were ferocious in Women's Wear Daily. It ended up by saying something like 'the question is why Mr. Alfred chose to produce this play. We don't know...
...master of the many-splendored art of Irish malarkey was Flann O'Brien, pseudonymous author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Flann O'Brien was one of the pen names of Brian O'Nolan, wit, playwright and civil servant. Under the name of Myles na gCopaleen, he wrote a satirical column for the Irish Times; he died in Dublin on April 1. But in all three identities, he was a great kidder. At Swim, first published in London in 1939 and twelve years later in New York, has since gathered a subterranean reputation-and thus this new edition...
...people's apartments. Her tastes in celebrities range from the late Dag Hammarskjold to Zero Mostel to Miss Teen-Age America to Lassie (her favorite television star). What makes Miss Ross different from thousands of other girls-about-town is that she writes about it. With deftness, lucidity, and wit. In Talk Stories, a collection of sixty "Talk of the Town" pieces from the New Yorker. Miss Ross has further established her reputation as a reporter sans rival and shows another side of the talent which produced Reporting and the now famous profiles of Hemingway and Stevenson...