Word: witting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hugh Sidey [Oct. 10] to assume that President Nixon was elected by his clever "use of cosmetics and electronics" is to assume that we "middle Americans" (whom you newsmen like to champion) are too dull of wit to comprehend the issues that confronted us in the recent election...
...Washington cocktail circuit, and perhaps with some reason. "Being at a dinner with Burns is like being back in the high school classroom," says an acquaintance. His manner is relentlessly professorial; even his doodlings while he talks on the telephone are architecturally precise. But he occasionally shows a dry wit; he has been heard to speak of one politician as "a gentleman and a demagogue...
...SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR by Sam Greenlee. 248 pages. Baron. $4.95. A CIA "house nigger" drops out to train black teen-agers as "Freedom Fighters." A schizophrenic first novel by a young black, the book blends James Bond parody with wit and rage...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May's Adaptation and Terrence McNally's Next are a happy combination of funny one-acters. Both plays are directed by Miss May with her usual wit and comic perception...
...writer of first-rate prose. As a journal of his two years and three months as U.S. Ambassador to India (April 1961-July 1963), the volume is inevitably filled with history's largely forgotten and largely forgettable moments. But scarcely a paragraph is unredeemed by a flash of wit or a quietly neo-Machiavellian observation...