Word: daffyness
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Don't Go Near the Water. A daffy piece of South Pacifiction, based on William Brinkley's novel about some officers and men engaged in the Navy's public relations-and their own private affairs (TIME, Nov. 25).
Don't Go Near the Water. A daffy piece of South Pacifiction, based on William Brinkley's novel about some officers and men engaged in the Navy's public relations-and their own private affairs (TIME, Nov. 25).
Williams has dug into the prose, focusing every sharp-eyed, cockeyed image, finding a broomstick for every daffy, airborne prank, split-seconding every sottish or schoolboy joke.
"Most of the business performed on the stage, too, is illusion. The art of creating a play is the art of creating illusion, and acting is the ability to convey the illusion of emotion. Any actor who believes he can improve his performance by carrying on stage the actual ashes...
Died. Christopher Darlington Morley, 66, bearded poet, essayist, critic, playwright, author of some 50 books (Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop, Thunder on the Left, Kitty Foyle); of a cerebral thrombosis after a long illness; in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Twice editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority...