Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year critic Eric Bentley held the Norton Professorship, which is held annually by a representative of one of the arts...
...torn down when the Russians learned that Nkrumah would arrive first in his Ghana Airways jet. The Russians then worked furiously to get them all back up again for Nehru's arrival a bare 50 minutes later. Nkrumah himself was discreetly spirited away from the airport in a Bentley so as not to intrude upon Nehru's red-carpet welcome by Khrushchev, and he stayed in Moscow only long enough to join Nehru to deliver the Belgrade letter to Khrushchev. Then Nkrumah flew off to the Crimea where his family is vacationing...
...present version of the play has the influence not anticipated by Brecht himself: that of Mr. Eric Bentley, the translator, or "adaptor" as the program has it. Mr. Bentley's translation of a difficult text is a fair one, and a clean one, but he has seen fit to spruce up the play by adding several songs and an opening and closing chorus-line number more reminiscent of the English than of the Bavarian music hall...
...Maggie Ziskind, cast as the Widow Leosadia Begbick, a saloon-keeping trollop, has to bundle up in ratty Lotte Lenya togs and belt out a couple of those sour songs that were Mrs. Weill's stock-in-trade. (The words for most of these songs are by Mr. Bentley, the music--as Wall-ish as a composer of Sing Musel can make it--by Mr. Joseph Raposo...
...visit to Manchester in a driving rain, Yuri took one look at the waiting crowds and insisted the top be kept down on his Bentley convertible for the drive into the city. "If they can stand in the rain,'' he said, "so can I." The Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers presented him with an honorary membership medal inscribed "Moulding Together for a Better World." Replied onetime Metalworker Yuri graciously: "I am still a foundry worker at heart...