Word: witting
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...grievously damage a person's career and personal reputation. While in all cases of proven harassment the harasser is clearly wrong, non-etheless extenuating circumstances such as poor judgement, poor choice of words, a desire to too deeply probe a student's psyche or even too wild a wit can conceivably be involved. Of course, a professor must at all times weigh his words and control his actions; he is absolutely responsible for whatever he does. But as with all crimes, there are degrees of guilt...
...world's most visible witch; of cancer; in Melbourne, Fla. Leek traced her psychic ancestry back to the Crusades and staunchly described her faith as a legitimate religion. But as a writer, she cheerfully supplied supernatural overlays for such pop topics as assassination conspiracies, eventually parlaying her gregarious wit into four companies, regular television appearances and even cosmic cosmetics...
...LEFTY CARTOONIST Garry Trudesu has made heroes of few Republicans. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick, artfully portrayed as the aristocrat-legislator Lacey Davenport, is one of his exceptions. Adding welcome bursts of mature wit to the rambunctious world of "Doonesbury," Davenport pursues Washington no-good-niks with persistence and good taste. After vigorously lecturing a mobster friend of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan for making late-night death threats, she wonders aloud whether she has "hurt the poor man's feelings...
Ever since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, young British dramatists of envenomed wit and mocking disillusionment have spewed unpent rage across the English stage. In some ways, they sing an elegy in a graveyard-a threnody of lost nerve, lost confidence and a lost imperial destiny. In the foreground are eroded ideals, ill-spent passions and the taste of ashes that flavors lives without a guiding purpose...
...could fully compete with Kate Nelligan. She steals the evening and puts it in her purse. This Canadian-born actress makes a coruscating New York debut. Her moods are mercurial, and her stage presence is formidable. In this vehicle of trenchant thought, wry polemics and caustic wit, she is the powerful engine of internal combustion. -By T.E. Kalem