Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool, unruffled speaker with a shy, dry wit and an impressive talent for fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That...
Vandenberg spoke with wit and without rancor. He paid good-natured tribute to Harry Truman as "the most famous one-man tornado in the history of political hurricanes," twitted him for spending "six soap-box months telling the American people how the Republicans had ruined them," then opening his message to Congress with: ". . . the State of the Union is good...
Below the border in Eire, Prime Minister John A. Costello took up his coreligionists' cause with more will than wit. High-handed Costello played straight into Sir Basil's hands by calling together a committee which ordered collection boxes set up in front of every church, Catholic or Protestant, in Eire. The money was to be sent up North to help the Republicans...
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Richard III is prentice Shakespeare (some have argued that it is not all his) and in it the early Bard catches only the surfaces of evil. But he gives Richard two thoroughly vivid characteristics: a malign, gloating wit and a flamboyant love of effect. The role is an actor's dream because Richard is himself forever acting-throwing not a dark veil but a bright light round his hypocrisies, welcoming, not wincing at his bloody crimes. Seldom has there been such joy of villainy...