Word: witting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weinberg was noted for straightforward talk and a rapier wit that deflated his listeners without offending them...
This individuality, which was both Babel's genius and his death warrant, comes through best in his tales of old Odessa. In them, Chekhov's melancholy, Maupassant's detachment and Gogol's grotesque wit seem to fuse into the unmistakable Babel voice. It is a voice that can be heard most simply and clearly in You Must Know Everything, the title story of the collection. Considered to be his earliest known fiction, the story was discovered in manuscript and published in the Soviet Union...
...speech is a fairly good indication of the general level of wit to be found in Putney Swope, a frenzied, almost desperate comedy by a barely emerged underground film maker named Robert Downey. Downey-who bills himself in the credits as "a prince"-has got it into his royal head that what America really needs at this point in its history is another put-down of the advertising business. Accordingly, he has come up with the not totally unpromising notion of a group of black militants taking over an ad agency and bombarding the country with race propaganda concealed inside...
...mourned anew-if not consciously, at least through the aweful, though belated, recognition of the importance of his work. Only a few years before the turn of the century, however, Bach ad not stood in such repute. To the romantic of the 19th century, he represented formalism and meshed wit last glimmers of the Baroque-were no longer in style. Composers were writing symphonies instead of cantatas. Bach's Polyphony was dead...
...Death of a Salesman are missing the point. (Besides, if it's a death, it's a movie death. A central duplicity is being practiced here-a duplicity which violently, perhaps fatally, transgresses principles of minimum interference. How likely is it that a man whose drag a film crew wit him from house to house, despite tapering sales?) This isn't any salesman; it is a Bible salesman. The choice is not that arbitrary. The world of commerce has sucked up religious life; Christ's passion is another pitch in American's long sales talk. The contradictions of salesman...