Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rowdy, ill-clad and ill-fed. And, more than in other times, avid for the show that would lift it, not by illusion but by legitimate right, into a symbolic reminder of its own worth. As they waited, chaff flew. When black smoke poured from the palace chimney, a wit said: "Blimey, now they've gone an' burnt the blinkin' soup...
...find it wanting. Perhaps this feeling comes because Danny Kaye cannot seem to exude any of the real Mitty atmosphere; perhaps Kaye's species of facial-contortions-and-mouth-noises humor has begun to be rather tedious; perhaps slapstick is still, as always, a poor substitute for wit. Or perhaps the five dream-episodes, (three from the original story), funny as they may be, just don't completely redeem a routine "comedy-mystery"--routine even to the extent of including Boris Karloff...
...comedy: 1) come January, the American Tobacco Co. will reportedly drop Jack Paar (TIME, Sept. 29); 2) Funnyman Robert Q. Lewis (TIME, June 23) is still a liability to CBS, with no sponsor after nearly seven months on the air as a sustainer; 3) Alan Young, the Canadian wit, after starring for over two years on his own program, has been demoted to a supporting role on the Tony Martin show (TIME, April...
...prohibit this maneuver as a menace to the young manhood of the nation. Since this palcolithic period of football, Coach Harlow has seen and brought about constant progress in the game. The forward pass without the added weight of a player was the greatest historical source of speed. Wit rather than weight has steadily become the emphasis. But since Harlow returned form the Navy to assume control over Harvard football fortunes a year and a half ago, he feels that he has witnessed what amounts to the industrial revolution of the game...
...more at home snarling at the backside of an Army Brass Hat than attempting to convey the tone of Perelman's brand of humor. The vicious, Stieg-like cartoons that made his fame in "War Is No Damned Good" have no place beside Perelman's cutting, though entireless harmless, wit. Some of the drawings are excellent, particularly a picture of two bloodthirsty children, but for the largest part they misfire and confuse the effect. These badly chosen illustrations cripple an already spotty collection of stories...