Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...marimbas, etc., in a record clearly pitched to the neophyte stereo addict. For the most part, the fun is more in the studio than in the speaker, but in some of the more fanciful numbers -Make Love to Me, High Society-the band crackles with a kind of auditory wit that suggests Spike Jones gone highbrow...
Food for Centaurs, by Robert Graves. Besides writing with wit and learning about the centaurs' food (aphrodisiac mushrooms), the author renders highly personal judgments on Judas and Benedict Arnold (no traitors), afterworlds (dull) and Ava Gardner (delightful...
...manner has always been topical, chatty, a bit brash, unfailingly poised, only rarely lyrical. Above all, Auden's work suggests that there is nothing a poet cannot write poetry about, and most young poets since the early '30s have borrowed his air of verbal freedom. With wit to spare, cleverness sometimes beyond bearing, and effortless technique, he dazzled his contemporaries well before he had anything of lasting value...
...Eleonore's cousin-lover tries to escape from the snowbound chateau, but in the spring his small bones are found near by. No matter: word arrives that another cousin is coming. It all sounds like an insane parody of bedroom farce, but Playwright Sagan wrote it with skill, wit and a minor wisdom as dry as an eight-year-old fig leaf. Virtually all the critics, including hoary Academician Frangois Mauriac, praised Chateau. Dissenters could point to an occasional over-cleverness and seize on one of Sagan's lines for their text. "Intelligence has become a terrible thing...
...great whooping cranes of scholarly controversy. As a man who travels "full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head," Graves ranges airily from poetry to poltergeists, from mushrooms to Majorca (his expatriate home). Though the form changes-essay, lecture, story, poem-the wryly cantankerous wit and charm remain the same...