Word: wits
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...satire is always kindly, and usually illuminating. A captious critic might wish that some of the more obvious and familiar jests, like those concerning baked beans and squirrels with unfinished tails had been omitted; but this would only be because the merits of the old wit had been dimmed by the new. The thoughts that flow like the Charles River, the feather boa with which Boston can see nothing the matter because "It's the same that she's always worn," "the Unitarian who cannot be effectually told to go to the devil," the ghosts of the Beacon Hill mansion...
...abstain from unfavorable personal criticism unless called for by some need. It was a rare event to hear him pass an unfriendly judgment, and he disliked to hear it done by others. He appreciated keenly the peculiarities of his acquaintances, and could characterize them with accuracy and wit. But such comments were always kindly or marked by a light and playful touch, devoid of sting...
Professor E. B. Holt '96, of the Philosophical Department, will give the third of a series of six public lectures on topics in psychology in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. The special subject for today's lecture will be "The Freudian Theory of Wit...
...LECTURES ON TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY. III. "The Freudian Theory of Wit." Professor Holt. Emerson...
...LECTURES ON TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY. III. "The Freudian Theory of Wit." Professor Holt. Emerson...