Word: witting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. An ordinary spy plot becomes a novel of unusual depth, thanks to Burgess' memorable characterization and wit...
Honesty & Openness. A man of considerable wit and charm, Pike inspires intense devotion among many of those who have worked with him. "I am willing to fight for him forever. He is a great modern prophet," says Architect George Livermore, a trustee of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. Cambridge University Theologian Donald MacKinnon calls Pike "a man of integrity and humility, with a remarkable honesty and openness of mind." Even Billy Graham, whose theological views are poles apart from Pike's, considers him a friend...
Their act, honed to within an inch of everybody's life, is among other things a pigeonholer's nightmare, swooping from low burlesque to high camp, from keen wit to Raggedy Ann clowning, from one-line gags to intricately orchestrated sketches. W.illiam Wordsworth's The Daffodils is revived, lyrics faithfully intact, as a rock-'n'-roll song, with Ullett wreaking vengeance on a mangy guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone...
Lord Randolph, a genial wit to his public, was pretty much an ogre to his son. He believed that he had been cursed with a backward boy and treated Winston like a delinquent dunderhead. He hardly condescended to correspond directly with his son, and communicated his bleak Olympian ultimatums on Winston's tardiness, low school marks and other failures, through Lady Randolph. He did not even let little Winny know that he himself had gone to Eton (as, explains Etonian Randolph, had six generations of Churchills), and contemptuously shoved his unsatisfactory son into Harrow...
...this picture sells Adlai short. It sizes him up in terms only of the Kennedy campaign style of wit and eloquence while ignoring his administrative competence and his political views. Recently at a fund-raising dinner for Douglas, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. differentiated the genuine politicians from the synthetic ones. He spoke of President Kennedy, Ambassador Stevenson, Senator Douglas and even Barry Goldwater as men of sincere political convictions, as genuine politicians. In the second category he put Ronald Reagan and Charles Percy, saying that they were men who tailored their convictions to the whim of the crowd. One should think...