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...keen wit his compassionate nature, his sense of honor and justice, and his administrative wisdom in reaching difficult decisions have all notably contributed to an outstanding period in Harvard's progress." he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Dean Will Serve Brief Term | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

PRESENT AT THE CREATION, by Dean Acheson. In these well-written memoirs, Harry Truman's Secretary of State recalls the formative years of the cold war with much wit, knowledge and insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Sellers: Nov. 28, 1969 | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...soon decided* that a man's main choice in life was to play the hammer or the anvil. Zozo, as he was nicknamed, had no doubts about which role he intended to take. Blessed with a middle-class background, a sound Jesuit education, a phenomenal memory and a wit to match his impudence, Voltaire hammered on every anvil in sight with an exuberance no enlightened common sense could quite explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Chaos of Clarity | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

PRESENT AT THE CREATION, by Dean Acheson. In these well-written memoirs, Harry Truman's Secretary of State recalls the formative years of the cold war with much wit, knowledge and insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Fortune Cookies. Mencken's denudation of America's Sunday-go-to-meeting image was carried out with wit and a once admired prose style. Harold Ross of The New Yorker said that he was "the most enlightened man writing today." That praise now seems a shade inconsequential-as if a potentially great pianist had squandered his digital gifts as a pinball virtuoso. In truth, Mencken worked hard at his prose but had the autodidact's fatal fondness for the fancy word. As for the flowers of wit culled by Carl Bode, a professor of English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun Among the Philistines | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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