Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl managing editor in the student paper's 93-year history. "It's pretty hard for the boys to forget I'm a girl," the Cliffie admitted, "but you must be businesslike." Thoroughly upstaged, her boss, new Crimson President Robert Samuelson, said gracefully: "She has great wit; she is a good choice...
Stones That Draw. Cassatt never married, but she lived a full family life until her death in 1926. Her parents, sisters, nephews and nieces were always visiting her villa on the Riviera, her Paris flat or chateau near Beauvais. Even in her old age, she had a prim, acerbic wit: she found Monet too unintelligent, criticized Renoir's lusty art as too "animal," scorned the generation of the cubists as "cafe loafers...
...PROUD TOWER, by Barbara W. Tuchman. As a sequel to her admirable The Guns of August, Historian Tuchman has again used impressive scholarship and a beguiling wit to examine the quality of the uneasy society that produced World...
...STEVENSON WIT (RCA Victor) consists of excerpts from the speeches, press conferences and off-the-cuff remarks of the late ambassador, strung together with remarks by David Brinkley. Though Stevenson's wit was warm and enlightening, he was not a comic, and to isolate his jokes from the eloquent purposes they served does him no great service and gives the listener little sustenance...
While the play has flickers of wit and moments of poignance, it is less a drama than an exercise in computer programming. Albee has fed into it only such data as will produce the answer that this is the worst of all possible worlds. And just as Aldous Huxley spoke of "murderee" types, Malcolm is a corruptee-he invites corruption. He is dumb, passive and available, and he lacks all strength of purity. The healthy organism rejects disease; the pure spirit resists evil. As for the spectacle of the supine young Adonis having his flesh and heart beaked...