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...brood who live as innocent squatters in a big, old-fashioned house in the country. Walt has flossed it up with lively songs, a glossy assortment of period gewgaws (a red Stutz Bearcat, a steam locomotive, a pianola), and Hayley Mills, who bolsters the little plot with elfin enthusiasm...
...speech-elaborately phrased, rich with allusions-sounds like another language amid the staccato din of the New Frontier's verbal shorthand. With his ironic, self-deprecating wit, he often appears to be some misplaced elfin uncle among the intense young men who laugh at their well-worn house jokes only rarely-and hardly ever at themselves...
...With her elfin daughter Sylvia, Vera Brühne was a familiar and whispered-about figure in Munich. An elegant, well born, still icily attractive woman of 52, she loved expensive clothes, fashionable parties, the best nightspots. She also had some peculiar tastes; once she planned to hide in a Renaissance chest in her flat and watch Sylvia seduce a friend's 14-year-old son. Lurking in her background was a burly construction worker named Johann Ferbach, 49, a wartime deserter from the Wehrmacht who met Vera during an air raid in 1944 and remained with her through...
Bernd Schmidt had been captured by Maria Hoelscher, an elfin girl with saucer-like brown eyes and a ponytail. He had to return to his home near Mannheim and his job as an apprentice lathe operator, but as soon as he saved enough money for them to marry, Maria planned to leave East Germany and join him. Then the Communists built the Wall, dividing the lovers as well as Germany. Last week Bernd Schmidt went again to Leipzig. He met Maria in a Weinstube and they tried to think of a way to smuggle...
OKLAHOMA'S Democratic Representative Carl Bert Albert, 53, is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, wears an elfin grin, and is so inconspicuous that he might be mistaken for a filing clerk in his own office. But Albert has qualities that should serve him well as majority floor leader: he combines an abiding love of the House with a shrewd sense of its mood that has earned him respect on both sides of the aisle and at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue...