Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...those who better knew and understood Lyndon Johnson figured that pretty soon someone-to wit, his liberal critics-was going to get clouted. Last week that happened...
...next 16 years was indistinguishable from thousands of other bureaucrats. Clutching his newspaper and a black umbrella, he commuted between his modest home in suburban Shinjuku and a governmental beehive in Tokyo's busy Kasumigaseki district. Though he looked and acted like all the others, his quick wit and swift grasp of facts and situations won him a new nickname: "The Razor...
...novel (published in the U.S. for the first time) is both sympathetic and accurate. If it lacks the weight and ironic wisdom of some of his later work (The Horse's Mouth, Herself Surprised), it nevertheless shows the famous Gary virtues: a clear and economical style, a sharp wit, and a joy in human existence...
...Music has nothing new to say, but it says the familiar with zest and wit. Only a Leonard Bernstein, for instance, would ever undertake to explain jazz by writing a Macbeth Blues...
Menna Gallic's brief and beautifully written first novel of the Welsh coal fields is the sort of book that bestselling authors should be required to copy two or three times in longhand. The language has a strong, sly wit, and the story-of a troubled, strikebound village-is told with force and skill. Welsh-born Novelist Gallie is able to give her sympathy to the strikers without the posturing of protest literature, and to evoke the gamy folk flavor of her villagers without being cute or condescending...