Word: nosegay
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...could be a setting in an R.K. Nayaran story. His Africa is as baleful as Conrad's and his London Waugh-like. Here, for example, is a man-about-town explaining how to ensure a successful dinner party: "I'm asking the poet and his wife only for the nosegay effect. A little bit of dead fern, to set the whole thing off." There are moments in this book-of-many-parts when the same could be said of Willie Chandran...
RICHARD STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAVALIER (Deutsche Grammophon). Herbert von Karajan leads a sterling silver cast in Strauss's nostalgic Viennese nosegay...
...senses can be used indifferently for each other, the more our understandings would be enlarged. A rose, jassamine, a pink, a jonquil and a honeysuckle might signify the vowels, the consonants to be represented by other flowers. How charming it would be to smell an ode from a nosegay...
...variegated nosegay of American letters, the Deep South's poetry of decadence stinks like a long-since-wilted magnolia, but Author Wilkinson magically refreshes its fragrance with images new as dew: "A green snake weaved around the rocks, rolling like a liquid in hot glass until the grass pulled it in and it disappeared." Language like that explains why the late Randall Jarrell described Miss Wilkinson as "the most talented writer of prose I ever taught...
...TAKE IT WITH YOU. The gifted APA repertory company puts a new wrapping on a 30-year-old comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The Sycamore family may not seem hilariously outlandish today, but it is still fondly engaging-a tender nosegay tossed to an earlier age of innocence...