Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cyrano de Bergerac. Oscar-Winner Jose Ferrer plays Rostand's poet-swordsman with wit, dash and eloquence (TIME...
...person of little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit."-Webster
...coincidence, either, that Nancy Walker seems to be onstage when most of the delightful putting much gusto into her acting as the roaring girl, she still manages to extract a good deal of humor from her material. It is not Restoration wit that gets the laughs when she is on; it is Nancy Walker, pure and simple. She wipes her nose with her sleeve and makes love to a cello with a savage determination that is generally both frightening and funny...
Cyrano de Bergerac. Oscar-Winner Jose Ferrer plays Rostand's poet-swordsman with wit, dash and eloquence (TIME...
...council is experimenting wit the "Oxford style" tonight in its debate with the Boston chapter of the World Socialist Party on whether capitalism is detrimental to society (8 p.m in the Leverett Junior Common Room). The Oxford system allows the audience to cross-question the speakers and to decide by vote which team is the winner. Obviously the method is feasible only when the topic is controversial enough to arouse audience interest...