Word: wittedness
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Goodwin was young then--young, even for the Kennedy people. In 1958, after graduating first in his class from the Harvard Law School, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix M. Frankfurter. After working for a year on the House Commerce Commission's 1959 television quiz-show scandals, he joined...
This is the second in Clint Eastwood's "Philo and Clyde" series, which began two years ago with the enormously successful, whimsically reprehensible Every Which Way But Loose. Eastwood's Philo Beddoe is an amiable auto mechanic who hulks through the West saving damsels in distress and giving...
In some obscure "rocky place," Sir--the embodiment of England's insensitive aristocracy--and his servant Cocky--the embodiment of England's righteous lower class--imagine their own metaphysical stage and act out society's cruelties in The Game. As Sir arbitrarily changes the rules, forcing Cocky to grovel for...
The influx, mostly from the American South and the distant West Indies, was not exactly well received. Historian S.B. Sutton reports that theCambridge Chroniclebegan to fill its humor columns with jokes about Blacks, usually depicting them as "childlike and slow-witted." Because "the color of their skin set them apart...
But when Lyndon Johnson inherited the Oval Office late in 1963, he brought with him Sam Houston Johnson, a sharp-witted drunk with a predilection for the fast life. "I guess Lyndon wanted me close by so that he could keep a big-brotherly eye on all my extra-curricular...