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POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr intermittently breaks through the brittle ice of wit into the chilly waters of insight in this pensively playful study of the ability to love and write. Alan Bates as a kind of BurtonThomas-Behan composite displays the kind of flypaper charm that women love to get stuck with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 1, 1965 | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. This collection shows the poet's wit, shrewdness, ego-and also the courage that saw him through an unrelenting succession of painful family tragedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 25, 1964 | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...Kennedy Wit, Adler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 25, 1964 | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. This collection shows the poet's wit, shrewdness, ego-and also the courage that saw him through an unrelenting succession of family tragedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 18, 1964 | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Regrettably, substance is frequently sacrificed to surface. Like Eliza crossing the ice floes, the compulsive witticist in Mrs. Kerr reflects a mind too busy to stop and sink. But unlike lesser jokesmiths, Jean Kerr can always be trusted to produce the wit that is instant wisdom, as in "The affair you don't get over is the one you never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Widower Takes a Wife | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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