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Others were protesting the administration, and with it, the sanctity of tradition, the bigness of the system, the anonymity of authority. My campaign represented for them, my original and wittiest supporters especially, exactly that light-hearted challenge which is best suited to the undermining of traditional authority...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: A Word About the Class Marshal Election | 1/27/1965 | See Source »

MARISOL-Stable, 33 East 74th. Marisol's wooden oddballs have been alternately described as folk art, surrealist, Pop, even "poetic dislocations." Actually, these twelve new ones are simply the wackiest, wittiest mélanges on view anywhere. Through March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Feb. 28, 1964 | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...wittiest" member of Yale's class of '29, Griswold aspired to be a writer. A taste of Wall Street drove him back to Yale to teach, and at 40 he became one of the university's youngest and most respected full professors. One day in 1950, he lunched in Manhattan with a college-president friend, heard out a tale of woe, and after the meal told his wife: "Thank God we're not in that racket!" The same morning, unknown to him, the Yale Corporation had named Whitney Griswold president, Yale's youngest in modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: The Witty Reformer | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...investigate the current state of these fine old sins, London's Sunday Times recently commissioned essays on them from a septet of England's wiliest, wittiest penmen. Nontheologians all, the Sunday Times sin samplers range from longtime agnostic and Critic Cyril Connolly, whose report on covetousness is a jaunty little tale of how a greedy antique collector comes to a Bad End, to Roman Catholic Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who rather admired the sin assigned to her. "Pride may be my own besetting sin," she wrote, "but it is also my besetting virtue. Certainly my life has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Those Fine Old Deadly Sins | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Caroline Cross (Director) has gathered the cream of local acting talent into one smooth and professional cast, put them in the three-quarter round of an extremely serviceable setting (designed by Yoshiaku Shimizu), and given them some of the world's wittiest lines to speak. Quite clearly, it was a great night for Harvard drama...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Twelfth Night | 6/11/1962 | See Source »

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