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Word: wittedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against the American Grain, by Dwight Macdonald'. In a series of engaging essays, a razor-witted critic hews an assortment of U.S. cultural pretensions down to size.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 11, 1963 | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

The center sends its list of the colleges with midyear openings to high school guidance counselors who subscribe to the center's reports Cat $22.50 a year). One effect is to undercut a racket that has grown up from the rush for higher education. To the dismay of reputable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Admissions: February Freshmen | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

But now we are being told that in the future, all those who quit on their thesis and even those who turn in an unacceptable thesis, will receive the CLGS if they otherwise qualify. The quick-witted will perceive that under this set-up. I need only have handed in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C.L.G.& S. | 12/11/1962 | See Source »

Jowls & Shanks. Pa is nicely played by Buddy Ebsen, 54, the ex-hoofer who last scored on TV as George Russell, constant companion of Davy Crockett. Pa has an oafishly agreeable young cousin named Jethro, who is a l'il weak-minded and has spent a dozen years in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: On the Cob | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Died. Representative Clement Miller. 45, voluble, spike-witted liberal Democrat from California's mammoth First Congressional District (San Francisco Bay to Oregon), grandson of a onetime Delaware Republican Governor, author (Member of the House, a collection of informal letters conveying the tempo of Congress to his constituents), and one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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