Word: witting
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...collection was housed in the Morgan Library, a Manhattan palazzo designed by McKim, Mead & White that is itself a masterpiece of American Renaissance Revival architecture. After Morgan died in 1913, the buying went on under the direction of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman from Virginia of brisk wit and considerable presence, who expanded and refined the collection for four decades. The library became a public institution in 1924, and this spring it has mounted an exhibition, "Great Acquisitions of 50 Years: 1924-1974," to celebrate its golden anniversary...
...boring slapstickery on the Carol Burnett Show, destroys the comedy of the villain's role by his overbearing and predictable gestures and expressions. Cleavon Little, another gift from the world of TV comedy, plays Black Bart like Stepin Fetchit. Such a portrayal lacks not only racial sensitivity; it lacks wit...
...standard of condemnation for the world that makes it a mistake. "One may know by your Kiss, that your Gin is excellent," Mr. Peachum remarks, but his less capable daughter can only explain sorrowfully that she can't stop loving her husband--and that, coupled with the wit implicit in a good production, is what carries The Beggar's Opera beyond cynicism into anger...
...Coward's iridescent wit sometimes did not quite conceal a quality in him that was sentimental and even heartbroken. Nothing vulgar or mawkish, of course-just a sense of life's complicated unforgiveness. These two short plays, which were among his last works and probably not his best, still glisten with the famous Coward talent to amuse. But the evening ends with a certain suppressed sadness...
...love with a minor Italian princess and abandon his harpy wife. The talk is frequently funny: the husband dismisses one of his wife's friends as being so buck-toothed that she can eat an apple through a tennis racket. But often Coward's celebrated champagne wit amounts to no more than, say, Asti Spumante-or even a frothy ginger...