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Apropos of nothing, Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen arose in the Senate last week to ornament a dreary debate. "Mr. President," orated Ev, "there is such a word as 'euphemism.' I do not think I have looked it up for years, but I suppose a 'euphemism'...
Shriver did no better than fifth in a recent vice-presidential poll among the nation's Democratic county chairmen, and that apparently wasn't good enough for Johnson. So last week, to a surprised group of women reporters at a White House reception, he said apropos of nothing...
Talent for Shape. A clue to the minor mystery of Mailer may be found in what he calls the "Twelfth Presidential Paper," wherein he remarks, apropos of Hemingway, "The first art work in an artist is the shaping of his own personality." This really has the Mailer hallmark; it is...
In earlier scenes, however, the low jinks are vigorous and apropos. Genet has a gruesomely pictorial sense of humor ("Is the archbishop dead?"-"I hope so. His head is tied to the handlebars of a little boy's bicycle") and Scenarist Ben Maddow has a cute wit of his...
Ruddigore, according to my program, was the Harvard G & S Patters first production some six years ago (they have now evidently completed some sort of a cycle). Of that first performance the CRIMSON wrote that it was "as it should have been and more so." Now I'm not quite...