Word: apt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...receive from America a sum of money that we are not allowed to spend as we see fit. The money is channeled to us through uneconomical agencies that keep highly paid foreign employees and fleets of cars." The sight of U.S. housewives flitting by in outsize station wagons is apt to outrage a poor and proud mule-borne Libyan male who keeps his own wife shrouded in a baracan. Well aware of Libyan sensitivities, embassy and Air Force work hard to avoid riling the people...
...loose woman") than it does to Larousse's (a woman of "wit and elegance"), and she is historically correct in her estimate of the social importance of the courtesan in European society before World War I. It was the era of the marriage of convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess. The courtesan, on the other hand, was elegant, intelligent, well informed and equipped by temperament and training for the management of men and money...
...members with a long list of dangerous combinations, urges that the list be kept secret so that youthful amateurs will not get any new ideas. Particularly touchy are propellants that must be mixed hot. Another bad actor, already well known to most kids: ordinary household match heads, which are apt to explode disastrously while being crammed into a makeshift rocket chamber...
Author De Vries has rationed his wordplay in Tents and cut down on the puns and epigrams. Samples: "persona non Groton," "the Symbol Simons of literature," "What is chastity but an overemphasis on sex?" In Tents, the literary parodies are the thing, and some of them are hilariously apt...
...most appropriate and witty musical score in the Festival's history. The opening dissonant notes, with their absurd instrumentation, immediately set the mood for farce. Here and there a xylophone is comically used. And Falstaff is often accompanied by a tuba solo--a coupling that is just as apt here as is the pairing of the tuba with Sancho Panza in Strauss' Don Quixote. (This production even includes the actual dumping of Falstaff into the Thames; and what Falstaff later calls his "kind of alacrity in sinking" is conveyed by a descending tuba scale.) For the concluding dance of ouphes...