Word: witting
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...compositions to date have no common voice, they have several common denominators. There is almost always a strong, healthy pulse of percussion. There is drama and wit. There is an invitation, even in solemn moments, to the dance. And there is song. In his first symphony, Jeremiah, Bernstein offered, along with Biblical rumblings and stylized Semitic murmurs, some beautifully sad and soaring melodies for soprano. In his most recent serious work. Serenade for Violin Solo, String Orchestra and Percussion, the Bernstein song ? immensely more mature now ? has been transferred to the violin; it is a highly impressive piece...
...Britain's new Prime Minister has the elegance of an aristocrat, the literacy of a scholar, the drive of an executive. His oratorical gestures are as widely expansive as his mustache, his eyes are hound-dog sad, but his wit is quick and cheerfully malicious...
...infatuation with Anatol across the shimmer and sheen of violins. In one magnificent ball scene, a percussive, insistent invitation to the dance ("Dance, dance, dance the waltz") eerily foreshadowed the dance of death that was to come on the battlefields. In other passages the music sparkled with a dry wit, or lilted through the great candlelit palaces...
...When I lay bare the tooth of wit The hissing over the arched tongue Is more affectionate than hate, More bitter than the love of youth, And inaccessible by the young...
...predictable: right-wing Republicans were inclined against granting additional foreign economic aid; some liberal Democrats held that Eisenhower had fooled the people during the 1956 campaign and that he should now "face facts." Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield of Montana wondered whether a "serious constitutional question" was involved, to wit, whether the Congress should commit itself in advance to "a presidential declaration of war." Considering these doubts, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington hoped that the Congress would authorize "whatever is necessary for the President to have in order to aid him in the handling of the current Communist...