Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stark stage set in the Mannheim National Theater, a white door was hung with white lace curtains representing the "Door of Life"; on the other side a purple door, draped with a heavy purple mourning curtain, represented the "Door of Death." Moving between life and death, members of the Bayard family moved across the years between 1840 and 1930, their varied history remembered at a continuous Christmas dinner...
...reminded Woollcott of "a morning-glory vine climbing a pole." He was one of the deadliest pot rakers of the most famous seated gathering since King Arthur's, the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club; and when he failed to prosper, he beleaguered Heywood Broun, Harpo Marx, Herbert Bayard Swope and the rest with puns: "I fold my tens and silently steal away," or, apropos of nothing important, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian...
...would be wisest to start with a production in English. I suspect that many have remained cool to the work because of inadequate translations, such as the almost-standard one of Bayard Taylor, the recent attempt by Alice Raphael, and a new one by Walter Kaufmann that is just now reaching the booksellers. But there is a superbly fashioned fresh translation (of both Part One and Part Two) by Philip Wayne, in the Penguin Classics series; and I urge its adoption for the first Loeb production...
These sad-sounding facts add up to a hilariously inaccurate picture of energy-rich little (140 Ibs.) Bayard Quincy Morgan, Stanford's former chairman of Germanic languages, author of 40 books and countless articles-and the nation's most frenetic fumigator of the myth that every Mr. Chips is a goner...