Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tree, by Aubrey Menen. Some sprightly wit and stylish prose about an aphrodisiac...
...seventy-eight the Maestro is not yet finished with concocting enigmas. For the past six decades we have learned to recognize many Picassos: Picasso the archpriest of modern art, heir to Cezanne; Picasso the innovator and incorrigible prophet; Picasso the virtuoso of an infinitely flexible technique; Picasso the wit, even the coquette...
...tears and flapdoodle ... If my remarks have hurt Brown, that can only prove that football is more sanctified than any of us has estimated. The only way to really help is to bring football back into the dialogue, to subject it to all the resources of the dialogue, including wit, humor, paradox...
John XXIII has been on the throne of St. Peter only four months, but he is already the best-loved Pope of modern times. Rome has rarely known anyone like the stout, bustling, punchinello-faced old man, who combines warmth, wit and frankness with a dignity that is free of pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through...
Except for this flatulent postscript, Author Menen's sprightly wit and stylish prose make The Fig Tree the choicest summer reading of the winter...