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...siin wit jart and vois...
...specific cause of the apathy toward debating is the exclusive choice of political subjects, topics which often afford more opportunity for matching statistics and specious "debating points" than for matching careful thought, fine language, and ready wit. The discussion of subjects in the fields of fine arts and history as well as in politics would tend to draw more, and perhaps abler, men into debating and to arouse general undergraduate interest...
...remind your readers that Alexander had married an Asiatic mountain princess, Roxane. Little known, however, is their son, born after Alexander's death in 323 B. C. Emperor of the better half of the known world, a position he shared with Alexander's halfbrother, the half-wit Philip Arrhidaeus, the young Alexander might also expect to be deified like his father. He was not only born a king, but practically also a god. The enormous inheritance proved fatal. The regents fought each other, turned the empire upside down. In that cockeyed world no one was surprised when...
Moscow guffawed privately, took a dead serious official view. Pravda, official news-organ of the Soviet Regime, demanded that the three circuit court officials be recalled to Moscow, tried and severely punished "for making the State appear ridiculous," for not having had the wit to know that Dictator Stalin, whatever else he may do, does not order sparrows "kept ready...
Osbert Sitwell, polite writer, never prints an ill-bred remark, never lets his feelings run away with him. To many a critic he seems to lack the generosity of passion; but his chilly wit is often piercing. Of the playing fields of Eton he says: "But then one must remember, that which one did not realize at the time: education in Europe was, unconsciously, a preparation for death, not for life. Events proved it right. They died, as the saying goes, like gentlemen: which was the object of their education...