Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political team worthy of respect. Despite Lyndon Johnson's belated drive, despite the boisterous demonstrations for Adlai Stevenson, the efficient, machinelike Kennedy team had the nomination won before the first gavel bang. Heralding the advent of a new political breed-youngish, polished, businesslike technicians with culture and wit, the Kennedy men made the convention oratory seem superfluous and the floor demonstrations archaic...
Even then he was a strange mixture of rabid rebel and good companion-the original Angry Young Man, full of both compassion and wit. The war with the Kaiser was none of his concern: his battle was with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to death of a miner's lung disease and never offered a tuppence in workmen's compensation. In 1929 he burst upon Parliament "like some great disturbance of nature" as the new member from Ebbw Vale...
...ineptness was matched by Franklin Cover's Owen Glendower. The splendid and famous interchange between the two--"I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "Why, so can I, or so can any man;/But will they come when you do call for them?"--has no life and no wit, save what is in the lines. Reinhardt as Pistol in the second part shows greater understanding of his role, and provides several amusing moments...
...Happy Jack Kelly, up from hod carrying to become a millionaire and father of a Princess, wanted no squabbling over his estate. All his legatees knew in advance exactly what he meant to leave them. With that matter out of the way, Kelly sat down and penned words of wit and wisdom. To his sons-in-law (including Monaco's Prince Rainier), he left nary a penny: "I don't want to give the impression that I am against sons-in-law. If they are the right type, they will provide for themselves and their families...
...passion for public anonymity is readily understandable at the individual level. Every alcoholic needs pals on whom he can lean for help, and whom he can help to bolster his own ego. At the organizational level, the anonymity is more complex. Bill W., a forceful speaker with a cutting wit, explains: "Identification leads to power drives. The thought of power is one reason we were drunks in the first place. A.A. takes no denominational, political or economic stands. It stays out of controversy. We do not claim that anonymity is a virtue. Rather, it is a protection." In proof...