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Kathleen Eliot, former dean of Radcliffe said yesterday Jordan "had great dynamism and wit; her wit and vitality of mind stayed with her until the very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Radcliffe College Dean Frances R. Jordan Dies at 81 | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...been a longstanding tradition at Harvard to mock our New Hampshire Ivy neighbors who attend Dartmouth. This does not require an abundance of wit, of course, since Hanover residents tend to be eminently laughable...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Big Green Totemism and Other August Oddities | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

...performance: insistently personal in tone, a little self-consciously dazzling. As represented by two essays in this collection, The Taste of the Age and Poets, Critics, and Readers, it was also a performance that succeeded too well. How could readers be persuaded by the argument that grace and wit were dying out, when it was advanced with all the grace and wit of a Randall Jarrell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avenging Angel | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...Miles), that transvestite killer (Mr. X instead of Anthony Perkins), plus a prowl through a museum, lifted from Vertigo, and a sound-effects trick from The 39 Steps. But De Palma has done it before, and, in Sisters and Carrie, he did it with compassion and an agreeably gross wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knife of Brian | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...still be entered as best of breed, for Barich often seems to enter the souls of touts, breeders and even the animals themselves. But the book is far more. Like its predecessors, A Fan's Notes, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, this unique adventure amalgamates wit, reportage and philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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