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Although Governor William F. Weld '66 came from a prestigious family, friends say he got along very well with the diverse, artistic population who lived with him in Adams House. Weld is described as a brilliant mind with a sharp wit: he was a member and actor in the Hasty Pudding...
Middlemarch is a moral tale, but one told with frequently mordant wit. At the novel's center are two altruists whose yearning to serve others is frustrated in large measure by ill-advised marriages. Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) is ward of her eccentric uncle Arthur (Robert Hardy), who is known as "the worst landlord in the county" for the shabby way he treats his tenants. Dorothea's desire to improve the lot of others leads her to wed the Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), a scholar and cleric more than twice her young age. She is enraptured by his dream...
Indeed, I used to pride myself on the razor-sharp intellect that I displayed when under intense and overwhelming pressure, and I was feeling up to the challenge of lashing together 24 pages of some of the most incisive wit and elegant writing at Harvard, or anywhere, for that matter...
Beys, with deliciously self-mocking wit, explained that the council must vote itself more money, because that was the will of the students. He cited a curious survey, supposedly conducted long ago ("last year) to confirm his premonitions as vox populi...
...points made by Nietzsche and Paglia are well-taken. Satire, wit and ad hominem attacks have been and always will be essential to healthy, honest and vital discourse. Just because the people who don't excel in these areas want us to have pity on them doesn't mean we must give up the treasured rhetorical devices which make campus debate not only intelligent, but also entertaining--and therefore worth reading...