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...most astounding revolutionaries in all musical history. Haydn did not invent the idea of the symphony. But when he picked it up, the symphony was the most innocuous of musical forms: a fast/slow/fast outgrowth of the Italian overture. When he laid it down, it was a blend of wit, speed, drama and, yes, surprise...
Elie Nadelman was the Cole Porter of modern sculpture, a stylist to the very root. His art possessed the mellifluous, urbane seriousness that only wit confers and that was rare in American culture, whose usual tone (during Nadelman's life) was more dogged and puritanical...
Such odd, frivolous moments make The Wilby Conspiracy a surprisingly breezy diversion. The fugitive pair are pursued by a racist cop (played with excellent wit by Nicol Williamson). A reasonable level of satire is maintained throughout, even while everyone clowns...
...expense, troopers are reaching the scene of serious accidents in one-third the time it took two years ago. "If you want to travel safely, the only way to go is CB," says Kansas Highway Patrol Sergeant Oscar Becker. He adds dryly: "And there's a lot more wit on CB than you'll get on TV." Perhaps. From the elevated perch in a truck cab, drivers are ever alert to the virtues of attractive legs in passing cars. Reported one who got but a fleeting glance: "I've got my mind on what...
That is a theme Galbraith has argued many times before. Nonetheless, any new book by the retired Harvard professor and onetime (1961-63) Ambassador to India is an event-even if he is a compulsive overstater of his positions. Connoisseurs of civilized wit and stylish prose will be particularly pleased with this work. In recent books-notably Economics and the Public Purpose, published in 1973, which argued for a "new socialism"-Galbraith has seemed tediously preachy. In Money he has recovered the gently acerbic touch that he displayed as a reformist capitalist, and that made popular such books...