Word: wittedness
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Pell, who paid a short visit to the University this week, would just as well watch politics from the sidelines now. With typical candor and objectivity, he said, "The political philosophy of my generation is outmoded. We can't deal with the issues of today." Herbert Pell is heroically unequivocal...
Some of the characters are played with more enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn...
Airborne Advice. They had a clutch of Texas Congressmen's wives for company and one male: Warren Woodward, manager of Lady Bird's TV station in Austin. "Woody can find anything from lost luggage to a masseur," explained Lady Bird. "I call him my vice president in charge...
Culled Witticisms. Though sometimes dull and often irrelevant, Nikita's freewheeling quips and proverbs were at first a delight to newsmen and an astonishment to diplomats. But last week there was increasing evidence that Nikita was not as quick-witted as he seemed. Truth was that like other politicians...
Before his fate is settled, a sharp-witted U.S. vice consul takes a hand, and this plot twist may cause flutters of optimism at the Department of State. Novelist Ambler's consular chap, a quiet American but no chump, may well be the U.S.'s first foreign representative...