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Noting that many of Bush's students went on to become renowned professors, Bate who studied under Buch--described him as "perhaps the greatest teacher of university teachers--one of the wittiest and most brilliant scholars of his time...
...News Overnight. TV's wittiest, toughest, least snazzy news strip. The late hour (1:30 a.m. E.S.T.) allows for lengthy and caustic reports, sutured by two droll, articulate anchors: Lloyd Dobyns (now succeeded by Bill Schechner) and Linda Ellerbee...
...another tells of an animal's efforts to understand the motives of a lab technician who puts it into a maze ("The alien's cruelty is refined, yet irrational," the animal observes. "If it intended all along to starve me, why not simply withhold the food?"). The wittiest story examines the subject of time and deals with humanity's persistent demand: Why is there never enough? One answer has a logic that Pythagoras would have admired: like air from a tire, the stuff is actually escaping through a tiny hole in the universe...
...will. Sheed is one of the wittiest novelists, capable of turning out presumptive romans à clef like Office Politics (about a certain liberal magazine or magazines) and Max Jamison (about a certain theater critic or critics). In the new book he mixes the storyteller's phrase with the historian's acuity: "The '20s did not entirely take place in the '20s"; President Ford is "like a relative you have to visit now and then, with nothing much to report. You know, he's still working at Prudential or Tool & Dye"; William F. Buckley...
...other short pieces in this convenient collection betray an apprentice, if decidedly precocious writer. But Love and Freindship is a miracle of maturity, and one of the wittiest send-ups of nonsense in the English language. -By Paul Gray