Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a few stirring moments and occasionally, beautiful imagery, Dryden's poem is generally silly and would be a woeful bore with anything but skillful reading. Director Peter Judd did not make the mistake of some productions and let the performers burlesque the text; rather, each recited the flowery lines as if they were the Twenty-Third Psalm, and the results were doubly hilarious. Among numerous principals, Nora Sayre transformed the mealy-mouthed Emmeline into a vivacious heroine, and Thomas Merriam as Merlin romped through the comic role of "a famous Inchanter...
Official dinners bore him; he accepts no more than three or four such invitations a year. The nearest thing to real relaxation for Van Dusen comes in the summer, when he takes about six weeks off to spend with his wife and three college-age boys at his country place at Sorrento, Me. Even here, he spends at least three hours a day studying and writing in a remote and tiny cabin named Seclusion, where he has written most of his twelve books and countless articles. (His wife has a similar cabin. Its name: Solitude...
...Democratic tar get for '54, he indicated, was to be the President himself. In Charlotte last week, Ike was all but praised. Stevenson's target became the men around Ike and the G.O.P. itself. "When our President bestirs himself, ignores the expedient counsel of small-bore politicians and clears the high-pressure salesmen out of his house." said Stevenson, "I confidently predict that the American people will be enthusiastically and gratefully behind him. But I fear he will have to make his choice between uniting his party and uniting his nation . . . He cannot do both...
...dancing and a talent for witty sophistication. Since such gay blades are not always reliable, the mothers at the Berkeley were busy last week grading them according to a private code. Those who rated NST (not safe in taxis), FI (financially insecure), HD (heavy drinker) and AW (awful bore) were generally scratched...
Paris, Beautiful Paris. For all its sumptuousness and its galaxy of the first names of France, the chateau was a bore with bowing courtiers incapable of scraping up an amusing conversation. As everyone knew, life in the provinces was dreary too, and anyone who lived there was considered a mere "vegetable with powers of locomotion." Some noblemen of wit and wealth defied the King's pique and choseParis. It was a dirty city. The streets were choked with mud and refuse, and the stench could be smelled two miles outside the city gates. Here, a nobleman lived...