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...dedicated environmentalist, Robert Karl Deger often left his audiences off-balance and wide-eyed with his openness and ability to stop you right in your tracks with his wit. Yet when he took time to lecture groups of Harvard students, Deger never got the attention he deserved...
...made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind of Bauhaus elegance mit wit (it costs $30 to make...
...then dropped in on the ailing Senator Hubert Humphrey. When Zbig rose at lunch at the Israeli embassy to toast the mutual commitment to a noble ideal, to "the birth of peace," the emotional response in the room startled almost everyone. And a little later Henry Kissinger, the enduring wit, could chortle, "We may be doomed to peace...
Otherwise Engaged. With biting wit and wisdom, Playwright Simon Gray has various characters invade the privacy of a man who wants to be left alone...
Transatlantic Blues bubbles with such amiably jaded wit-on the modern church, the absurdities of "making it," celebrities as praise junkies, fake humility as an asset, indeed turning anything into an asset. Chatworth even considers publishing his confessional tape to "launch that new career as Mr. Honesty." The novel is a promising departure for Sheed too. It is much looser and more vigorously humorous than his previous fiction. As a parody of personality packaging and what happens when the package is unbundled, Chatworth may be, as the author says, "desolately cute." But his confusions raise an unsettling question...