Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophistication in a medium where that quality is usually considered a punishable offense. As Laura Petrie, the slightly daft heroine of the classic Dick Van Dyke Show, Moore demonstrated that sitcom suburban housewives did not have to be domestic ninnies chained to a kitchen sink. With her easy wit and sturdy intelligence, almost single-handed she brought TV out of the Lucille Ball-Donna Reed...
...American World Airways nonstop flights between Dallas-Fort Worth and London. Carter awarded the route to Braniff Airways. Kahn publicly disputed the ruling and considered resigning. "Then I counted to 24," he recalls, "and decided to stay because I was having such a good time." Kahn's wit makes his independence easier to take. During one meeting he snapped, "Every two minutes I feel like telling Pan Am to go to hell." Later he quipped, "I want to make clear that I was not offering Pan Am a new route...
...white man, that's murder. If a white man kills a nigger, that's justifiable homicide. If a nigger kills another nigger, that's one less nigger." Or, as a Negro blues song put it, "White folks and nigger in great Co't house/ Like Cat down Cellar wit' no-hole mouse." The melting pot was a myth for blacks. While 60% of white immigrants in Boston moved from unskilled to skilled or white-collar jobs after a generation, blacks stagnated in "Negro jobs" ?as porters, janitors, servants. Indeed, their mobility was often downward; as white immigrants moved into...
...what the ultimate, economically rational equilibrium should look like, but what is economically rational in an irrational world and how best to get from here to there." At week's end he had not decided whether to take the job. If he does, he has a quick enough wit to appreciate a gag that is circulating in Washington: he should be called not anti-inflation czar but king-King Kahn...
...Natalie endures two deaths in the family and Tom tries to come to terms with his wife's infidelities, their affair frays and then severs. Though the doomed lovers are portrayed with grace and wit, the novel's style is curiously oblique, conveying intensity of feeling not so much by exposition as by choice of detail and inflection...