Word: wittedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ostensibly inspired by his own experiences with municipal corruption, Flicker soon wraps his hero in red tape and delivers him to a greedy pack of policemen, firemen, city inspectors and hotshot racketeers, all seeking payoffs. The cop is a half-witted movie monster, obviously put together by graft. The fireman...
Died. The Rev. Gustave Weigel, 57, Jesuit theologian at Maryland's Woodstock College, urbane and quick-witted author (Faith and Understanding in America), an editor of the Jesuit weekly America, and devoted ecumenicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Gloomy Gus" Weigel, as his friends called him for his...
Mephistopheles shows up, dressed almost exactly like Faustus, indicating to the slow-witted that good and evil are close kin. They plot to recover the ring -Mephistopheles wants Faustus to be vastly powerful; Faustus wants to prevent the ring from being used with disastrous results to mankind. For those who...
Prehensile Tale. Boulle's tale clings prehensilely to this one turnabout joke, but rings nearly as many satiric changes on it as Swift did on the horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration...
Tricky Rendezvous. Other engineering ifs proliferate. The moon project as it is now planned includes a rendezvous in lunar orbit, during which a small spacecraft that has landed on the moon will soar up and mate with a main spacecraft orbiting overhead. The problems involved are all but incredible. No...