Word: wittedness
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Gentleman's Agreement. Earlier in the week, matters had not looked so good. One night-which became famed as "gentleman's agreement" night - the bright lights at Flushing beat down on a dapper, suave, self-assured diplomat with a red handkerchief flopping out of his coat pocket. This...
The first U.S. poet of the century to succeed in growing up, say the Gregorys, was Edwin Arlington Robinson. The Gregorys suggest parallels between Robinson's keen-witted accomplishment and that of Henry James: "Both men separately held in respect the progress of self-realization. ..." The authors esteem Robinson...
Spectators and delegates in the Paris arena last week watched him at work and saw a trained soldier-not a robot, but a quick-witted, iron-nerved fighter, attentive to the word from his superior, who reacts in disciplined grooves of mental habit.
In Nicaragua, there was no sign yet that Somoza had lost his ability to out-trick the slow-witted opposition. He had ample reason to hang on. Even if the Government was broke, Somoza enterprises were booming. Public-works employes kept up the dictator's cattle ranches. The National...
Britain's sharp-worded, sharp-witted critic George Orwell thus paraphrased the philosophy of the Soviet state: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Last week Russia, which long ago branded equality as "egalitarian" heresy, took another step toward hierarchy. True to Philosopher Yudin...