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...immediate reaction to the Harvard community was dislike. In his classmates especially, with the ex- ception of the tortured, in-grown, dead and beautiful Starwick, he found the stoniness, the apathy, the lifeless wit which characterized the Harvard literati...
Hard Work. Paar's peculiar combination of casual intensity and wit has caused one fan to call him "a cross between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been...
...figure, and her voice fills with rills and lusty high Fs; away from the mustiness of the Met, on TV she is freer to indulge her self-confessed "innate ham" with quick changes and buoyant tunes. The first Met diva to have her own TV series, Patrice opened with wit, authority, bounce and ten costume changes. She gave plenty of evidence that she can handle a TV repertory that will probably extend all the way from Verdi...
...Have Wit, Will Fit. In Manhattan, a college grad advertised in the New York Times for a job, listed his qualifications: "Have Brain, Will Train...
...dialogue which accompanies these events shows a few infrequent flashes of wit, but for the most part vacillates between the dull and the incredible. "The legend of the Raintree is the age-old tale of man's quest for the unattainable.... It is the very tree of life to him who finds it. Its ways are the ways of pleasantness and its paths all lead to peace, to happiness, to the secret of life itself." The actors deserve no little credit for making this sort of twaddle sound much less unlikely on the screen than it looks in print...