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...text almost sheepishly. The despair he portrays is only the despair of the prideful; drama is merely melodrama. Bernstein is a man of both cheek and genius; and in this case, the composer in him has been no more than the advocate of the showman, the charmer, the chap in the chukka boots shouting down from the balcony...
...haven't found the right chap yet. But he certainly would have to be taller than Nelson...
...have been Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization speech to the 20th Soviet Party Congress. This so shook his ideological faith, Georgiev explained, "that I felt theoretically unstable." So unstable, said the prosecutor, that the defendant hardly had time to unpack his bags before he was in touch with a chap from the CIA. There followed a walk in Central Park, and instructions on the dos and don'ts of espionage. There was a spooky man named Anderson, whose name was really something else. Geogiev was supposed to have met him time and again at addresses in Manhattan that, according...
...that write-up on Actor Laurence Harvey [Dec. 6] had an old TIME flavor. I thought perhaps the anonymous chap with the curare -dipped stiletto had been put to pasture and was perhaps pursuing some hobby, like milking rattlesnakes. It would appear instead that he merely paused to sharpen his fangs. While it is difficult to work up much sympathy for the victim, who is probably tapping his glass slipper in protest, any poor bastard blitzed with such deft and delicate razor strokes is deserving of pity. Wait until he tries to turn the other cheek...
...Balfour has known Wilson since both were students at Oxford, where she was president of the Liberal Club while he was a member. She recalled that "he would scurry along The Broad to committee meetings, gown ballooning in the wind, usually with an armful of books, a cheery little chap with a round, cherubic face like a pink scrubbed cherry stone and a little forelock of short-cropped hair curling briefly onto his forehead...