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Truncated Puppet. Frenchmen peered hopefully through the glorious opacity of De Gaulle's prose to see whether his rocket promised to go into orbit-or to fizzle. So far, the signs were not encouraging...
...complete without some jets flying in close formation overhead. To fulfill his dream, the prince got a promise from Morocco's former French masters of twelve Mistral jet fighters to form the nucleus of a new Royal Moroccan Air Force. Last week, on the eve of the "three glorious days," the French welshed, irritated with Morocco's increasingly active support of the Algerian rebels...
...long nose fallen at the tip; his white mustache, of thin separate hairs like glass threads . . . A string of muscle jerked in the shadow of the cheekbone." His success is twofold. In the first place a child of three takes an incomprehensible fancy to him and for a few glorious minutes they play. Then the old boy experiences an even greater triumph: he is able to rise from the bench, regain his feet and totter on. "He had done it again...
...Crimson had entered the contest with something approaching high hopes, despite the Bulldogs' unblemished record and a Harvard season that had not lived up to glorious expectations. But Yale was just too big, too strong, too good for a Crimson squad that made too many mistakes. It would have taken a flawless and inspired performance for Harvard to win, and the varsity--even with Charlie Ravenel back and surprisingly effective--couldn't come up with this kind of game...
Lerner's Parsifal. In adapting T. H. White's The Once and Future King the whole glorious frieze of Arthurian legend and the Middle Ages spread by a writer with the rarely combined gifts of levity, scholarship and poetry Lerner and Loewe have unquestionably taken on the greatest and heaviest theme that has ever been attempted in the field of musical comedy (Loewe tried to read the book, did not finish it). Treated seriously, the story could only be a musical tragedy, about a king who loses his wife to his best friend, loses his life under the sword...