Word: bouquets
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...Bouquets & Brickbats. Not so melted were London critics. The Manchester Guardian and London Daily Telegraph were unstinting in their praise. But the Times had a brickbat in its bouquet: "The virtuosity of the execution is astonishing. But equally . . . astonishing was the lack of [interpretive] imagination . . . Brahms's First Symphony opened with an assertion of fact, not the declaration of a mystery . . . Brahms might have written the symphony for a motion picture." Even so, on second thought, the Times admitted English orchestras suffered by comparison...
...highly civilized man, deeply interested in painting and craft. Walter Hendl, assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic and newly-appointed conductor of the Dallas Symphony likes to tell about the time Munch came to visit him at his home three years ago. He arrived with a bouquet of roses for Mrs. Hendl, and then proceeded to spend the rest of the evening teaching Hendl different kinds of solitaire which he uses when traveling. Hendl had a wonderful evening, but when it was over, his house was completely bare of food and liquor. The next day, Mrs. Hendl...
...ordering pisco Italia, which has a heady, perfumed bouquet, is labeled by fellow drinkers as a little short in the masculine virtues. The heavy, sweet flavor of pisco moscatel (distilled from muscatel wine) is for the unsophisticated drinker. The young blade disappointed in love seeks forgetfulness in eight or ten straight shots of cherry-flavored pisco. The pisco connoisseur drinks the high-powered Moquegua, distilled from the grapes of the dry, sandy soil of southern Peru...
...know," he said, "the highest pitch of French cuisine is canard faisandé-duck that has been hung a long time, so you can smell the bouquet. Very enjoyable to the educated nose. But if you offer it to the workers they will throw the rotten duck out, unless they throw it in your face. Now . . . the kitchen of the high bourgeoisie will make the proletarian vomit, and the paintings of the high bourgeoisie will make him vomit too-though this is nothing against the duck, or against modern...
...have this week's spelling lesson, courtesy of Sunday's New York Times. Question: How do you spell "circus"? Answer: p-s-o-l-q-u-o-i-s-e. Explanation: Pronounce "ps" as you would in psychology, "olo" as you would in colonel, "qu" as you would in bouquet, and "oise" as you would in tortoise. Put them all together, they spell mother. Or possibly cholmondley...