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WHEREAS: Brevity is the soul of wit --Shakespeare...
...born in Austin, Texas, received his A.B. at the University of Texas in 1929. No matter where he traveled or what he did, "V.O. never lost his Texas upbringing and the salt and wit that goes with it," said Price. "To add this to his scholarship makes him a friend and colleague who will be deeply missed and never replaced...
...LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the eighth volume of their massive study of Western civilization, the Durants describe with wit and a wealth of anecdote an age preoccupied by the confrontation between rationalism and faith...
Brilliant Wit...
Clearly the best part of the book is Miss McCarthy's brilliant wit. Sometimes her humor is bold to the point of crudeness, as when Dottie imagines her lover has told her to get a "peccary," when he said "pessary." But it isn't offensive, and her humor takes other forms. She is ironic, too, often with great subtlety. And she has a number of neat phrases, as when a party guest described the cake: "it's like eating frosted absorbent cotton...