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Word: witticist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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Regrettably, substance is frequently sacrificed to surface. Like Eliza crossing the ice floes, the compulsive witticist in Mrs. Kerr reflects a mind too busy to stop and sink. But unlike lesser jokesmiths, Jean Kerr can always be trusted to produce the wit that is instant wisdom, as in "The affair you don't get over is the one you never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Widower Takes a Wife | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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