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Shepard's reputation as the world's most famous golfer was short-lived. That spotlight has been pre-empted by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, whose recent bopping of three onlookers in a single day's club swinging loosed a flood of wit and wisecracking on a global scale. Comedian Bob Hope made his contribution at a White House dinner last week. "Some people," he said, "think President Nixon should send Agnew to Laos with a three-wood." Noting that the Vice President has earned a "black belt in golf," Hope said that he did not mind...
...theater, the luck of the English has been the Irish. From Sheridan and Farquhar through Synge, Shaw and O'Casey, Irish-born dramatists have adorned English speech with tears, wit and poetic music. All the great Irish writers possess the gift for lightening or deepening the color of language. They bring to it both a larky playfulness and a brooding melancholy. They are the unofficial patron saints of English, and it is these saints of the word whom the distinguished Irish actress Siobhan McKenna is honoring in a superior one-woman show called Here Are Ladies. Selections...
...didn't see this play in that tomb-like barn of a theater, you should be reminded that the Loeb Ex is very much alive as a casual, but uncommonly vigorous forum for amateur theatrics. And this particular Loeb Ex company did an admirable job making Orton's coruscating wit work to its full potential as entertainment...
...issues around which we would struggle. The conflict lacked definition, and so the climax, and hence resolution, never even appeared. Gene, so pallid and pathetic after Bella's explosive challenge, mumbled on of Consequences and their Causes and Consequences being one. And smiled in appreciation of his own scholastic wit...
...winds up winning the war. "By any major literary perspective." says a scornful Mailer, "the land of Millett is a barren and mediocre terrain, its flora reminiscent of a Ph.D. tract, its roads a narrow argument, and its horizon low." Kate is "nothing if not a pug-nosed wit," and "the yaws of her distortion were nicely hidden by the smudge pots of her indignation." As for Millett's views: "She saw the differences between men and women as nonessential-excesses of motion to be conditioned out . . . She was the enemy of sex which might look for beauty...