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Saturday night the Idler Players of Radcliffe presented William Congreve's "The Way of the World" in a modern-dress version. This play, the wittiest of Restoration comedies, fares badly by modernization because it is best enjoyed as a period piece. Taking "The Way of the World" of the Restoration takes a great deal out of the ply itself...
Ramadier announced that he would ask the Assembly for a vote of confidence. As the debate opened, the Communists made light of the crisis. Portly Duclos was at his wittiest. He urged that the workers' wages be boosted at the expense of employers' profits. Said he: "You know, it is a mistake to think that the principle of profit-taking was established on Mount Sinai, amid thunder and lightning...
...Shulman type of humor, relying upon the wittiest of word play rather than comic situations, is much less at home upon the stage than upon the printed page. But a fair number of recognizable bon mots still remain, together with sketchy outlines of the plot, such as it is. And with some very pleasant music and some clever lyrics by a couple of freshmen in the musical comedy business, named Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee, and most especially with Nancy Walker in the cast, the book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody...
...Chileans, the Austrians of the Western world, the wittiest, the best-looking people on the continent, felt pretty good as spring came again. God, they also say, is a Chilean...
Brideshead Revisited is a by-product of Waugh's military career. He wrote the 351-page novel while nursing a foot broken in a parachute jump. To many U.S. readers this book will be their first exposure to one of the wittiest, most corrosively mocking and violently serious minds now writing English prose-a mind whose career is almost as exciting as the books it has produced...