Word: wittedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Claude Moore Fuess, 78, longtime (1933-48) headmaster of Andover, the country's premier prep school, able biographer of Americans from Daniel Webster to Caleb Cushing, a razor-witted English teacher who broadened the curriculum (less Latin, more history) but preferred teaching, which he regarded as "an art...
Then Watson took the stand. Slow witted, he didn't hear any conversation after the Sheriff came back from the jail to the car, but heard some talk before he went to the jail. Also, he was sure that he got to the car before Minter. Although according to the...
As Edmund, Douglas Watson moves lithely, has the proper glint in his eyes, and articulates cleanly, even exaggerating and toying with the alliterative b-sounds in his lines. James Ray does not always keep Edgar in focus, but Lester Rawlins brings pathos to the half-witted wisdom and grotesque postures...
Yet the end product is essentially dull. Genet's conception of the entire world as a brothel may have shocked Broadway critics four years ago. But the idea seems pretty tame now. When Shelley Winters explains this Weltanschauung in the movie's fade, for the benefit of the slow-witted...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. Rasping family squabbles are the scenes that U.S. playwrights handle best, and this savage-witted, nightlong bout of man and wife ranks with the best of the breed. Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen are the battlers.