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...Kenneth J. Yolla, in his letter to TIME, complains that the spiral notebook causes pain and grief to left-handed students [Jan. 24]. The last page of a right-handed spiral notebook will become the first page of a left-handed notebook if Reader Yolla has the wit to turn the notebook over...
Garry Wills, an Esquire contributing editor with a gift for wit and lucidity, occasionally writes an article that is absolutely unreadable to most people. There was, for instance, his piece in the American Journal of Philology, "The Sapphic 'Umwertung Alter Werte.' " It began: "The poem differs from other early (i.e., pre-Pindaric) Priameln in two respects. First: the catalogue, which seems to be completed in the first strophe with the climactic iyw 8é, is resumed after an interval of three strophes. Second: the relationship between the catalogued values and the climactic one seems tenuous...
...augury of things to come from Samperi. Although he dwells too long on Signora Gastoni's admirable legs and thighs, Samperi generally demonstrates a knowledge and feeling for camera movement that is far beyond his years. Even more important, he has attacked his subject with energy and wit-qualities that, throughout most of Grazie Zia, the viewer can easily appreciate...
...Wit is the order of the day; anger against the misuse of language and life is the primary emotion, and bizarre revelation is most often the final effect...
Besides wrecking the funny material inherited from Southern and Hoffenberg, Henry adds some unfortunate bits of his own: a right-wing army officer (How's that for new satirical terrain?), some lecherous and brutal cops, a racially stereotyped black chauffeur and so on. There's no wit, just half-remembered jokes from other sources, clumsily executed...