Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Friday the Assembly recessed. The session, begun last September, had made the U.N.'s most significant decision since its establishment in 1945, to wit, that the veto-free Assembly could act against aggression whenever a veto blocked the Security Council. But it closed on a note of evasion, not firmness, without applying its new power against flagrant Chinese Communist aggression...
...Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's narrative is less bedizened with verbal gimcrackery, but it is still a bit too tricky for every taste. Nevertheless, there is no living author who moves about in fairyland with such wit and easy familiarity. As for inner meanings, please yourself...
...relief it was to get away from them. The titles told most of the story, and little of it was new, though much of it could stand retelling: The God That Failed, by half a dozen celebrities who had swallowed the Marxist hook but didn't have the wit to gag until they got to the sinker; General Walter Bedell Smith's saga of ambassadorial frustration, My Three Years in Moscow; General Frank Howley's account of day-to-day business with the Russians, Berlin Command; Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James...
...that if "The Lady's Not for Burning," she's indeed "For Frying" in Mr. Fry's "Spry" and palatable concoction of poetic wit. SIDNEY KOEKIN Kansas City...
...concluded, "We have the tools and the doctrine for peace if we have the wit to use them...