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Also a stabilizing influence--and herself a remarkable synthesis--was Miss Gibbens. After James married her in 1878 his physical and emotional health improved markedly, and he launched into his significant work in psychology. Though her intelligence, beauty, and wit were highly regarded, she is surely remembered primarily for the composure, devotion, and sympathetic loyalty with which she watched over he highstrung husband...
...Bach Society Orchestra ended its season last Friday night with a concert neither dazzling nor disappointing. In Stravinsky's "Ragtime for 11 Instruments," out-going conductor Bentley Layton displayed the wit and care his audiences have come to expect of him. Inspired playing by the whole ensemble made the lines of the work as airy as lace...
...President had one chance for real relaxation. It was the soth birthday of his longtime friend Dave Powers, who serves as receptionist, relaxer, and rollick-some wit. Kennedy threw a surprise party for Powers, called him into the Cabinet Room to attend a "secret session" on Laos, handed him such gifts as a sweatshirt emblazoned VIGAH, a certificate for 50-mile hikes between the reception desk and the White House refrigerator for beer, and a silver stein engraved...
Satire, or a bit of wit, might have given pop art a certain charm. But the pop artists do not expose the vulgar; they merely exploit it, down to the last pecan-covered butterscotch...
Taste, restraint, and precision characterize She Loves Me, notably in the staging of musical numbers by Carol Haney, a stylist of spoof with the wit to be brief. In a wry ballad of self-castigation, Comedienne Barbara Baxley kisses the pleasures of sex and the single girl goodbye while Jack ("Grand Knowing You") Cassidy is the cat's whiskers dipped in cream as the roue who drove her to ruing. Vitally integrated with the book are the lyrics and music of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, who have produced a light operatic score in which song follows song...