Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book's most celebrated contributor is Winston Cliurchill (a clever politician-journalist-historian), who in one variant of history did not die of prison fever during the Boer War, but went on to become a heroic brandy drinker and Prime Minister. With double irony in his title, Churchill speculates on what might have happened in If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg. After Lee's victory, Churchill notes, the Confederate general's brilliant stroke of freeing the slaves cut away the moral underpinning of the Union cause. Could Lee actually have forced such a measure...
...sometimes does not pay to be too clever with answering devices. Boston Piano Player Randy Klein, who backs up Singer Graham, was moved to record a more conventional greeting after his ragtime ditty began drawing 300 calls per day. Graham is also deluged with calls. "People call from New York just to listen," he says. "It genuinely gives them joy." Author Robert Rimmer's (Thursday, My Love) phone rang almost continuously when word got around that his machine read back a passage from his book...
PRECISE MOVEMENT and clever choreography make the visual tableau in Walklyndon equally effective. In this lampoon of walking styles, the pacing is so sharp that the dancers give the feeling of a busy street corner in New York. Stern businessmen too pressed to shake hands, matrons walking their pets, friends out for a breath of air, all parade by. The theme grows more intriguing as walkers begin to bump into each other, scramble to avoid a collision, or walk over each other. In this dance, the facial expressions add such personality to the gaits themselves that the piece borders...
Lawrence Durrell has always made better sound than sense, but his cadenzas are so splendidly overripe (the effect being that of Berlioz played by an orchestra of gondoliers) that his novels have not suffered in the least. They are clever, evocative, atmospheric and essentially unserious...
...That's much more important to know," he says, "and besides, I figure we'll wear seat belts anyway." He hooked up another switch to a fan, so he can cool his engine in heavy traffic, but otherwise he hasn't meddled with the European engineering, which seems clever...