Word: witting
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...just yet, for once again. Cole Porter has come up with nothing in the way of a worthy replacement. The success of the pleasant, second-rate Can-Can seems to have taught Mr. Porter that a catch title and a song about Paris can fill in for his undisputed wit...
...employ, and created telling juxtapositions (e.g., a bird engraved on a cat's forehead) that inspired the surrealists. He drew and painted on everything, from glass to burlap, and always with iron control. Klee's demons almost never failed him; he had them under the yoke of wit and taste...
...they were "in fair Verona, where we lay our scene." In later centuries, notably toward the end of the 19th, productions of Shakespeare became almost as richly furnished as they were badly played; but not until some 335 years after Shakespeare's death did a producer find the wit and the way to take the playwright at his word-actually to give him a kingdom for a stage...
...rather novel since it symbolizes nothing. Instead it is of the "slice of life" school, showing an adolescent nearing maturity in the course of an afternoon. With incisive, purposive dialogue Robinson goes straight to his play's problems, that of showing the boy's growth, with insight and wit. It is remarkably good...
...well to Clifford Odets' new play, The Flowering Peach. Whenever Odets is naughty or cute, whether to shock or titillate the audience, he wins laughs or gasps of admiration. But when he sticks to his calling as that rare theatrical type--a thoughtful craftsman--he achieves mature drama and wit...