Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concluded, "We have the tools and the doctrine for peace if we have the wit to use them...
...Jean Anouilh by Christopher Fry; produced by Gilbert Miller) is as French as a duel in the Bois, and as airy and evanescent as skywriting. A "charade with music," it assembles a fashionable group for a ball at a chateau where not only the guests, but their words, their wit, their desires, their very frustrations are expected to dance. With its adroit Christopher Fry translation, evocative Poulenc music, elegant Dufy curtain scrawls, charming 1912 Castillo costumes, Ring Round the Moon comes in the most inviting of envelopes-which proves a little hard on the letter inside...
Ring Round the Moon has a measure of wit along with its grace, and a tango scene that deigns to be altogether hilarious. In a generally good production, Lucile Watson is amusing as the ball's aristocratic wheelchaired hostess, Denholm Elliott smooth and agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...
...multifaceted wit of the late George Bernard Shaw often did more to conceal than reveal his deep convictions. But last week a paragraph from his will made it clear where the author of Saint Joan, Heartbreak House and Back to Methuselah stood on the question of religion...
...perhaps the ablest modern translator of the Bible. His new book, three decades in the making ("mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them . . .") is titled Enthusiasm (Oxford; $6). In it, Author Knox brings all his wit and scholarship to bear on the many groups in church history which have, from time to time, bypassed ecclesiastical authority to claim direct contact with the divine...