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Outwardly at least, his own mood and wit seem to improve with his shrinking prospects. Asked by a TV interviewer last week in Pittsburgh what he would do if George Wallace won the nomination, Muskie replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Replotting Muskie | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...early days read like a bad Theodore Dreiser novel in their unequal mating of ambition to mediocrity. In high school he rated run of the mill as a student. The caption under his yearbook picture read: "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow." Witcover reports: "Classmates still scratch their heads over what that might mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odyssey of Divisiveness | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...decided, a man of prodigious endurance and good nature to resume his obliging cocktail-party manner after an already long evening. There he remained until well after midnight, still standing, talking to whomever could get a word in, turning his wit to whatever challenge was offered, land occasionally butting heads with a hairy Welshman named Thomas...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: "God Bless Drinking In Public" | 4/20/1972 | See Source »

...Escher's asset was an intricately schematic intelligence, and this he used with such wit and patience that he became, without modern rival, a master of visual paradox. A great many of Escher's prints were about teasingly blocked situations. They are scientific demonstrations of how to visualize the impossible. What they propose is a kind of n-dimensional reality in which the laws of perception are temporarily repealed. The most innocent images contain excruciating traps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: n-Dimensional Reality | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...hotfoot in the star ring role of Pseudolus, a slave with a passion for freedom as avid as that of all 1 3 original colonies. He was gloriously funny, and in this revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo rum, Phil Silvers is every wit his equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Laugh Potion | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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