incisive wit

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• incisive — incisive, trenchant, clear cut, cutting, biting, crisp are applied to utterances, thoughts, style, or mentalities and mean having or manifesting the qualities associated with sharpness, keenness, and acuteness, especially of mind. Incisive… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Gough Whitlam — Infobox Prime Minister honorific prefix = The Honourable name= Gough Whitlam honorific suffix = AC QC order=21st Prime Minister of Australia Elections: 1969, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977 term start =5 December 1972 term end =11 November 1975 deputy… …   Wikipedia

• Malcolm X — /eks/, (Malcolm Little) 1925 65, U.S. black rights activist and religious leader. * * * orig. Malcolm Little later El Hajj Malik El Shabazz born May 19, 1925, Omaha, Neb., U.S. died Feb. 21, 1965, New York, N.Y. U.S. black Muslim leader. He was… …   Universalium

• Mark Finch — (21 October 1961[1] 14 January 1995) was an English promoter of LGBT cinema. Having founded and expanded several international film festivals he created the first LGBT film market for distributors, sales agents, and independent film producers.… …   Wikipedia

• Jack Canfora — John Lawrence Jack Canfora (born April 6, 1969) is an American playwright whose works include Place Setting, Jericho and a Poetic License. After receiving his dramatic training at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts, he began his career as an… …   Wikipedia

• The Soxaholix — Infobox Website name = The Soxaholix caption = Get your war on meets Boston Dirt Dogs meets SoSH url = [http://www.soxaholix.com http://www.soxaholix.com] type = Webcomic/Blog registration = No owner = Hart Brachen (h.b.) author = Hart Brachen (h …   Wikipedia

• Plath, Sylvia — born Oct. 27, 1932, Boston, Mass., U.S. died Feb. 11, 1963, London, Eng. U.S. poet. The daughter of an entomologist, Plath was driven to excel as a writer from an early age and published her first poem at age eight. At Smith College she made an… …   Universalium

• Sade, Marquis de — orig. Donatien Alphonse François, count de Sade born June 2, 1740, Paris, France died Dec. 2, 1814, Charenton, near Paris French novelist and philosopher. After abandoning a military career at the end of the Seven Years War, he married and became …   Universalium

• Umbral, Francisco — ▪ 2008 Francisco Pérez Martínez        Spanish writer born May 11, 1935 , Madrid, Spain died Aug. 28, 2007, Madrid was known for his incisive wit and use of both classical language and contemporary slang in work that included magazine essays,… …   Universalium

• Nobel, Alfred Bernhard — ▪ Swedish inventor born Oct. 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden died Dec. 10, 1896, San Remo, Italy       Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist, who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prizes… …   Universalium

• Casanova —    A casanova in today s usage is an unprincipled ladies man, a libertine, a rake, dedicated to the gratification of his lust. Such a person was Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Siengalt (1725 1798), born into a theatrical family. As a young man he… …   Dictionary of eponyms