Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months political wiseacres have poohed the rapid rise of New York's Thomas E. Dewey. Winks went around: "He looks good now, but wait till the experts work out on him." Last week two experts got to work on young Mr. Dewey. In the New Yorker, mordant Wolcott Gibbs, who believes in mixing plenty of gall with his ink, profiled Mr. Dewey enthusiastically in an article that read like a long, catlike scratch. Mr. Gibbs on Mr. Dewey...
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...because I love Life. That is an important statement and I want to repeat it: William Saroyan Loves Life." This Wolcott Gibbs parody of a cocky Saroyan dramatic preface appeared on Manhattan newsstands one morning last week. Same morning's papers told about some new Saroyan shenanigans. A brand-new, self-consciously indigenous, highly touted and talented group who call themselves the Ballet Theatre staged the world premiere of a Saroyan innovation. Its title was a phrase for which anti-Saroyans have long groped to describe William Saroyan himself: The Great American Goof. The author of My Heart...