Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
...bedtime when the new governess arrived. The little girl sat up in her bed, looked the lady over, and spoke her mind: "Why have you no hair?" Miss Crawford had hair and proved it by taking off her hat. She also had tact, wit and a will beneath the hat, and proved it thereafter in one of the toughest assignments in the British Empire. For the next 16 years (until 1949), "Crawfie's" job was to teach the outspoken little girl and her tart-tongued sister their respective places - as royal princesses of the world's greatest monarchy...