Word: witting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their surface similarities, the two men are markedly different. Kennedy is coldly pragmatic, Lindsay stubbornly principled. Where Kennedy has a sharper wit, the mayor has an easier humor. While Lindsay is taller and undeniably handsomer, Bobby has The Name. Though both wear an affluent air and came into family money-an immense advantage for a man with political ambitions-neither is hurt by the aura of wealth. Indeed, it is a peculiarity of American political reporting that only self-made men are generally labeled "rich." (Actually, Lindsay's total $140,000 inheritance is exceeded by the annual return alone...
...York, Macbird, a ham-handed attack on Lyndon Johnson that makes no sense, flashes no wit, and deserves no mercy, was beginning negotiations for rental of an off-Broadway theater in which it plans to open in November. It presents the President and Lady Bird as latter-day Macbeths, murdering anyone who gets in their way, opposing "the Wayne of Morse," and chattering in very blank verse. Heaved together by a 25-year-old former Berkeley student named Barbara Garson, the play and its message are exemplified in Macbeth's lines to his chief of war, Lord MacNamara...
Fowler published Modern English Usage in 1926. That valuable reference, generously tinctured with the author's wit, has not been allowed to go out of date; it was revised only last year by Sir Ernest Gowers, himself an eminent lexicographer...
...With or Without Roses (Doubleday; $3.95), a collection of 63 of her verses, Mrs. Louchheim shows the influence of her favorite portrait poets, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edgar Lee Masters, but displays a sharp, sometimes biting, always knowing wit that is all her own. Her subjects, readers will find, are anonymous, but nowhere is she more on target than in "The Bureaucrat...
...plot a 19th century French bedroom farce, in setting a Scottish castle, Cheval projects the true tone of Sagan's languorous existentialism-a tone that has been characterized as boredom raised to the level of a passion. What's more, it projects her wit to a new and unexpected height. Amid a tangle of French fortune hunters trying to undo the clothing and the purse strings of a noble Scottish family, Sagan finds room to run Wilde. "If I married you," a girl tells her libertine fiancé, "how long would I have to wait before betraying...