Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best part of the evening is Mr. Patrick's own wit, and this will surprise no one who remembers his "Hasty Heart." The following samples appear on the back of my program...
...Gladwyn's arrival as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N. (succeeding Sir Alexander Cadogan) coincided with the return of Russia's Jacob Malik. His polished delivery, his shrewd, easy wit, his telling replies to tedious Malik have made him a favorite of U.N. audiences. A typical TV-fan wire, from Chevy Chase (Md.), read: "You were magnificent in defense of all that is worthwhile in this world." Sir Gladwyn thinks such responses "extraordinary...
Ibert's music is more animated and fresh than his plot. A composer who owes a lot to Debussy and Ravel, he gives his orchestra a palette full of colors, his 40 singers (at Tanglewood, all students) arias and choruses with wit, tune and charm. Le Roi is the work of a king among craftsmen, if not of a composer working by divine right...
Visitors who could not catch the fast flow of German words and wit found few arias to cling to. But connoisseurs found some puckish operatic humor to smile over. Sample: when one character asks, "Why not compose an opera on a mythological theme?" the Producer (sung by Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler) replies, to a melody from Strauss's 1912 opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, "But it's been done." Smiled Baritone Schoeffler: "The old man had fun when he wrote this...
...understand what had happened, Bradley could, if he would, refer inquirers back to some recent history, to wit, the weeks immediately following World War II. He might have pointed out how the U.S. destroyed and left strewn around the globe billions of dollars worth of arms and equipment. It was too expensive to bring the stuff home; it would not be needed anyhow in the long years of peace which lay ahead. No more would big military forces be needed. In response to demands from home which shook U.S. politicians to their shoes, the victorious U.S. military force had been...