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Initially hailed, Tiger now seems undecipherable and inconsequential. Giraudoux lacked the wit to give his play buoyancy and the wisdom to give it gravity. He simply swaps frivolous badinage on war, a tragic theme that demands poetry and power...
...cool of the hip intellectual. The hippie's stripped-down jargon--"I dig her;" "it's a groove;" "I' up tight"--thwarts emotional expression by stylizing it, he said. "Did you ever try ending a relationship by saying 'I've got to split the scene'?" The mocking wit of the hip intellectual may be worse, he said, for it skirts around honest feelings without admitting their existence. "You find it impossible to tell these cool, sarcastic, smart people that you're unhappy," he said. By the end of freshman year, he could not speak to his roommates. "I refused...
...franchise for less money than newsprint and printing-labor cost," he wrote in his final issue. He added that he has also been losing his readership. "To the generation that succeeded mine, stories about the Lower East Side are like stories about the moon." Nor does he feel that wit is the useful weapon it once was. "The fight for civil rights has lost its romance," he wrote. "There is nothing funny about it any more...
...criticism. His campaign does not need to become more radical or even more fiery. But he could be more specific. He could begin to respond to policy moves by President Johnson quickly and with toughness. Johnson provides McCarthy with plenty of mistakes to capitalize on; the Senator has the wit and intelligence to bring the full implications of these mistakes home to regular Democratic voters...
...initiative, dusted off the colored lithograph that hangs over the bar and also dusted off the photograph of old John McNulty that hangs beside Kennedy's picture. McNulty, who had gone to the Boston Latin School, was quite a man. Big, gruff, and hearty, he was quite a wit and was responsible for the sign over the barroom door. He died last year...