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...thought that Johnson lacks the qualities for that sort of performance. "Although he has an alert mind," wrote New York Post Washington Columnist William V. Shannon, "he does not have Mr. Kennedy's blotting-paper memory for facts and details. He does not have Mr. Kennedy's wit...
...equally important in the 1960s, perhaps, is the old prophecy of the late Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: "In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute: the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. Today we maintain ourselves. Tomorrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated...
They were after something more personal, but no one could begin, no one could open himself as Goodman seemed to have done. And so Goodman answered their questions with wit and understanding, and one by one the students departed. It was not just another hang-up; the very concept of contact had been marred. For if not with Goodman, with whom? When the last bearded undergraduate had gone, Goodman sighed. "These Havahd students," he said. "What do you suppose they really wanted...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK should probably insure its audiences with Lloyd's of London, just in case anyone dies laughing. Playwright Neil Simon's unpredictable wit, Mike Nichols' spry direction, and Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley's comic finesse as a pair of blissfully wacky newlyweds provide incessant merriment...
MARY, MARY. A soupcon of wisdom, a lot of wit are laced into Jean Kerr's zingy comedy about marriage-on-the-rocks. Debbie Reynolds and Barry Nelson star in the screen version of the play...