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...case included in the book is a poem called "The Connecticut Wit," written to convince the Connecticut Constitutional Convention to pass the Constitution...
...fact, most talking to oneself involves a low order of business--pettiness, self-justification, improvised rants or what the French call l'esprit d'escalier, the things that you should have said a moment ago, lines you think of while coming down the stairs. (The British call it "taxi wit," which may prove that the French think faster than the Brits.) This debased muttering is directed at salesclerks, ticket-writing cops and even would-be muggers: "You know, son, when I was in Nam .." Talking to oneself is inherently a private act, not meant to be shared, and as such...
DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...
...heard you had an ear and were ready to lend one, and if the mood was right and there was a bottle of Scotch in the neighborhood, he could talk about music far into the night. "A Johnny Mercer lyric," he said once, casually, "is all the wit you wish you had and all the love you ever lost." Music was the one subject that could make Sinatra drop his guard. He talked about music as he sang it: with diligence and respect and a passion that left no doubt that this above all was what mattered most...
...Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H*--never made it to No. 1, while plenty of junk did ascend to that pinnacle. As fun as it would be to go against the conventional, middlebrow wisdom and say The Beverly Hillbillies possessed a sly, Twain-like wit, recent viewings confirm that it was as crude as everyone has always said. The Happy Days-Laverne and Shirley era is another sorry one. So it could be argued on behalf of Seinfeld that it has combined quality and popularity in a way that is very impressive...