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Dunn's dry wit drew laughs from the audience. She compared the process of translating between languages to that of interpreting the slang of current college students...
Some may inquire whether the subject of wit is worthy of such effort. In my opinion, there is no doubt about it... --Sigmund Freud, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious...
...Wit-making is not at the disposal of all, in general there are but a few persons to whom one can point and say they are witty. --Ibid...
...industry today has no conscience. Nor does the current cinema possess half the wit, elan and social acuity of Hollywood in the dirty '30s. Those films were more than the sum of their smirks. They were expressions of an industry scrambling for survival, like their amoral heroes for sale, and doing it in a style--raffish, dynamic, truly adult--that we've hardly seen since...
...lover of language. He fell in love (and in hate) with the poem or book under review, bringing it alive even as he anatomized it. These essays, selected by Brad Leithauser, open the reader to the Morgan Library of Jarrell's mind, ablaze with a sensible passion and aphoristic wit. "The people who live in a Golden Age," he wrote, "usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." When Jarrell died in 1965, criticism suddenly looked a lot less yellow...