Word: witting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Regarding the mural paintings I designed and executed for Johns Hopkins University: Your Nov. 26 article is good; it has wit and a certain charm in proving that a work of art can be approached without verbiage. The artist who accepts a commission to paint monumental works for a public building assumes a responsibility not only as a creative artist, but as an interpretive artist, because it is his job to communicate to the best of his ability what the building stands...
...pleasantly played by Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie), she falls in love at first hearing. The love story of Bells Are Ringing is almost defiantly orthodox, but suffused as it is with Judy's warmth, never really becomes a burden. But it does bulk much too large for wit to keep pace with sentiment, for the Comden-Green book to display the usual fresh, crisp Comden-Greenness...
...drawing-room purgatories of upper-caste Britons living beyond their unearned incomes. The book's brittle, so-weary-of-it-all lament, which only a Bea Lillie could salvage, too often turns the glint of champagne sparkle into ginger-beer fizz.. But Author Manning has an unerring wit that probably comes unforced to a contributor to Punch, and she sees to it, at novel's end, that each of the doves has been properly plucked...
...somewhat less vulgar play, the adapters-with wonderful help from Designer Oliver Smith-have hit on a kind of scene-a-minute technique. Their slapdash method, though highly uncreative, is not entirely illadvised. Thanks to Morton DaCosta's lively staging, it makes speed a kind of substitute for wit, and puts pedestrian writing on horseback. Its quick-changes also consort well with Auntie Mame's scatterbrained nature, besides providing a fine succession of new costumes, new hairdos, new wall treatments, new gaffes, new predicaments...
...dictaphone to slow him down. In Faculty meetings and in his Government 185 lectures on foreign policy, his forceful and rapid diction can leave his listeners more awed than enlightened. "He thinks of every aspect of what he is talking on and then he covers it with ease, wit, and stylistic brilliance," a friend said. Before a Faculty meeting or in his paper-filled office, he listens to a speaker abstractly, ruling perfectly straight lines at close intervals on a scratch pad. And generally his explication is as precise as his doodling. "For the first time that I can remember...