Word: wittedness
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Physician Grant is a doctor to warm any patient's heart. In his lecture courses at the university, he scandalizes such colleagues as dandruffy Hume Cronyn by suggesting that a sympathetic bedside manner is as important as the study of anatomy. A disciple of broad-gauged living, Grant also...
Last week, in the Congress at Rio, Deputy Nelson Carneiro argued for a bill which would punch a loophole in the constitution by providing annulments for incompatibility-under strict controls. The impossibility of legally ending a marriage, he believed, was the root of intolerable matrimonial tangles in Brazil. At every...
The idea grew. Icardi and LoDolce talked it over with their two partisan attendants, a slim, wiry workman named Guiseppe Manini, and a slow-witted peasant by the name of Gualtiero Tozzini, known as "Pupo," the baby.
At RCA he makes all the top decisions, is brusque with slower-witted underlings. He insists that every memo to him must be no more than a page, but allows himself more latitude, has written memos as long as 30 pages. A collection of his better memos, bound in gold...
Gramercy Ghost is as dull-witted as it is snail-paced. At the final curtain it is, dramatically, still wading out toward where it is deep enough to swim. The play pins all its laughs on how visible ghosts are, instead of how mischievous. Actually, the Gramercy Ghost is the...