Word: witting
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...wit, the intensity and the spirit of Mayor Ed Koch [June 15] make an Easterner wish she were back East...
...religion, illness and the servant problem. Now, according to the first book of etiquette published in Britain in more than 50 years, the forbidden list is down to two: malicious gossip and porn movies. Anything else can be discussed, even in "heated conversation," as long as guests have the wit to avoid the four dreadful icebreakers (Do you live in London? What do you do? Have you any children? Have you been abroad this year?). And if the soup is scorching hot, a guest should spit it out to save his burning mouth...
...they're wrong: he is a working American moralist. He hates the cheap and the shoddy; the bad values, the bad art, the bad people. His hero, Travis McGee, who hates all of it for him, hates with intelligence, an acuity, and a ruthless wit...
...London. A full-time writer from the age of 22, Johnson turned out 27 novels, the last, A Bonfire, to be published in the U.S. next month. Though her books did not sell as well as those written by Snow, her second husband, critics praised them for satirical wit and deft malice...
...letter is, after all: a literary form, like a sonnet. It is not as defined as a sonnet. Still one looks for things to be said in letters that are not said elsewhere, expecting truth most of all. Even falsity in letters divulges a kind of truth-the false wit employed in writing to a clever enemy, the false cheer to a dull friend, the false authority to children, the false self-confidence to colleagues. Letters conceal almost nothing, which accounts for their power. Those few who have done them well ought never have been told: Don't write...