Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychology and the subversion of that relationship by the jargon of today") are "beyond considerations of who can find what kind of happiness when..." His approach is highly intellectualized rather than that of a "How-to" type guide. It is rarely pedantic, though, barbed as it is by a wit akin to stainless steel wire, brilliant and deadly. His delineation of the organizations and charlatans that have cashed in on a society's introspection is cruelly exact...
Morrison leaves us without resolution of the problems her characters face. Freedom from the urban ghetto, where life is dominated by discrimination and where one can only fight back with wit or violence, means leaving the comprehensible world. Both Pilate and finally Milkman have left the earth: they are off in a world that is inaccessible. Song of Solomon opened with the attempted flight of a lonely insurance salesman, off the roof of No Mercy Hospital; his failure is not a good omen for Milkman's flight. But the attempt, Morrison suggests, is the important thing. Milkman must decide between...
While many may envy Clarke's success at relocating himself off the subcontinent in an island paradise, few will care about his domestic difficulties, described in "Servant Problem--Oriental Style." Nor is the reader likely to admire Clarke's wit in suggesting that Appuhamy, his houseboy for eight years and the father of 13 children, should receive a complimentary vasectomy as remuneration for services rendered. Equally boring are Clarke's tax problems, his alimony difficulties, his spinal injury, and the roster of literary celebrities and other personalities whom Clarke has met in the lobby of New York's Chelsea Hotel...
...visual appeal (and Mainstage shows generally feature excellent sets), a play devoid of energy simply does not work there. So it is particularly heartening to find a season-opening production that is remarkable in many ways, but for nothing so much as its exuberant energy and wit...
LUST IS THE metaphor for the human condition in Philip Roth's novel, The Professor of Desire. His story of a young man's effort to arrive at sexual and romantic happiness is funny, written with a pungent Rabelasian wit, but marked by an underlying not of wistfulness. He portrays a dissatisfation almost inherent in living, the incompatibility of passion and peace and the transcience of happiness...