Word: easterly
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...press played it up as one of the decade's worst disasters. In a slow Easter week on Fleet Street, Britain's newspapers called it another Battle of Britain. A few correspondents even quoted Churchill's immortal words of that dark hour: "We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds." Fight what...
...high. But banana-heads find the craze appealing, largely because of its delicious legality. Already they have taken to wearing T shirts emblazoned with a blue United Fruit Co. seal. Sales of bananas at Harvard Square groceries have tripled in the past week. Highlight of Manhattan's Easter Sunday "bein" in Central Park was a raggle-taggle mob brandishing a giant 3-ft.-long mock banana and chanting "Banana! Banana! Ba-nan-a!" as they snake-danced through the bemused multitude, cheered on by girls wearing banana crowns, while one student, dressed in a yellow slicker, tried to pass...
...ears, and have my own heart." Which leaves only one man who can meet Karajan's standards for a director of any opera that he conducts: Karajan himself. And so, for the production of Wagner's Die Walküre last week at Salzburg's new Easter Festival, Karajan had no trouble getting both assignments. After all, the creator, financial wizard and guiding spirit of the entire festival was Karajan...
...delicacy that, though born of respect, wreaks boredom. Sean O'Casey was anything but respected in his life-time and his country: the Irish press frequently denounced him, and a full-blown riot took place when The Plough and the Stars, his 1926 drama set against the rebellion of Easter 1916, opened at the Abbey Theatre. But in the United States, where O'Casey has long been championed by influential critics and directors, the controversy has grown remote. So remote that one of the most violent and forceful dramatists in the language could be treated Thursday night like so much...
Conniff and Considine tactfully avoided mentioning Dallas and deleted an exuberant remark Jackie made praising Bobby: "I'd jump out of the window for him." Conniff is so pleased with the interview that he plans to run it again in the Easter Sunday issue...