Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...place in Harvard's history is now secured by those who credit much of their achievement to his tutelage. Copey's readings and individual instruction, in the classroom and in his residence in Hollis 15, imbude generations of Harvard men with his personality. He livened education with wit and personal color; yet he warned against the confines of University life, urged his students not to stagnate in the backwaters of undergraduate content...
...those who have ever read a book of Fanny Burney's I bow. To those who dare challenge the statement that she was one of God's dullest creatures, (a medieum of literary wit notwithstanding) I take off my hat. But to those who say that Emily Hahn has not written an excellent biography of Fanny Burney, dullness or no, I reply in heated words. "A Degree of Prudery" is that miracle of writing: an absorbing book about an almost flat person...
...first two novels displayed some freshness and even considerable wit, which seems out of character for a prude, and were extremely popular; her later works were bogged down in convoluted style and were also popular. She spent five long dull years at court as Keeper of the Queen's Robes...
...Lady's Not for Burning has wit and comic relief as well as heart, and it has declarations of love such as no living playwright has found the language for. When Thomas deprecatingly says of himself...
...Mountains is laced with a barky hillman's wit and mellowed with one man's humility before mountain grandeur. Mr. Justice Douglas emerges from his chambers as a man who can take the measure of his mountains and write of them with a Thoreau-like freshness...