Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite the same old Vishinsky, the corrosive purveyor of wise saws and ancient instances- he was slower and less certain of himself, and his wit was chillier. But it was the same old Soviet line, with a few new twists to adjust to the passage of a year. For disarmament, Vishinsky wanted a world disarmament conference, to sit by next June; for Korea, he insisted on a truce at the 38th parallel and an evacuation of all foreign troops; for the benefit of Communism, he wanted the U.N. to condemn and outlaw the West's North Atlantic defense organization...
Died. Julius Lulley, 58, Washington restaurateur, raconteur, wit, who rose from apprentice waiter to owner of Harvey's, one of the capital's oldest and best restaurants; of cancer; in Washington...
...most of the dialogue is more literate than the Hollywood average; some of it, evidently contributed by Co-Scripter S. N. Behrman, helps Actor Leo Genn to shine as Petronius, the Roman satirist, whose dry wit enables him to needle Nero even while flattering him. As Nero, Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov is allowed to hog too much screen time, but he does some expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera...
...curious place. Its business in life is to breed and to educate. The parent lives for his children; the child, when educated himself, becomes a parent, or becomes an educator, or is both . . . Nothing ever comes of it all. There is no society worth the name, no wit, no intellectual energy . . . Everything is respectable, and nothing amusing. There are no outlaws. There are not only no convictions, but no strong wants. Dr. Holmes* . . . is allowed to talk as he will-wild atheism commonly -and no one objects. I am allowed to sit in my chair at Harvard College and rail...
...Wit, author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, and father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...