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...from the Renaissance. Next came the age of grand Continental travel, and then a highly literary travel culminating in the wanderings of men like Evelyn Waugh and D.H. Lawrence and Robert Byron in the years after the first World War. Travel had a certain Noel Coward élan. Robert Benchley is said to have cabled home from Venice: STREETS FULL OF WATER. ADVISE...
...Clare had become a famous convert to the Catholic Church. Religion was their touchstone, and at the Luce house in Ridgefield, Conn., she made him feel at home. After dinner with "Harry's power people," they would retire to his room for conversation. They talked about Robert Benchley and Noël Coward and the Catholic Church...
Sellars is now part of a distinguished tradition of opera-synopsis parodies--an art whose greatest practitioner was without a doubt the late Robert Benchley. Benchley's account of Act II of Die Meister-Genossenschaft is especially instructive...
Peter Sellars's version of Orlando is not a work of Handel scholarship, any more than Benchley's synopsis is a work of Wagner scholarship. But Benchley's spirit is in many ways Sellars's as well: an abundant wit, a vaguely lunatic sense of the absurd--and just the slightest touch of the tarnhelm...
...help ward off or ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal anticold regimen: "Don't breathe through your nose or mouth...