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...tell the difference.' " In Wisconsin, when asked if he would accept the No. 2 spot on the ticket, Udall quipped: "I'm against vice in every form, including the vice presidency." Given the heavy pressures upon him, it is remarkable that Udall can keep his wit -and his wits. One typical 24-hour period last week went this...
...closed. Ernst was our century's incarnation of Hermes, the agile trickster, and we will not see his like again. He was, with the more phlegmatic Rene Magritte, the best of all the artists connected with surrealism-the master of the "alternative" tradition of mystery, unreason and demonic wit...
...dull. That's why the cultivation of the self is the sine qua non, the without-it-you're-not-in-it, of being good." Hills is right, of course, about the unpopularity of small-scale, day-to-day morality, and he devotes plenty of heart and wit trying to devise an attractive picture of a good life. But all he manages, really, is a sad caricature of Virtue with a lampshade over its head...
Gore Vidal might be a "Laughing Cassandra" [March 1], but my God he does it with such wit-and plenty of class...
...David Watkin, who makes Sherwood into a forest well suited to legend. Particularly there is Sean Connery's Robin Hood, Nicol Williamson's Little John, Robert Shaw's winter-eyed Sheriff, Audrey Hepburn's Maid Marian-and Richard Lester, a film maker of deft wit and frequent brilliance...