Word: epigram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once more their patience has been rewarded-but not so amusingly this time. Christopher Morley's new novel, The Man Who Made Friends With Himself, is a long epigram-studded footnote on the life of Richard Tolman, a literary agent who commutes and ruminates between his Long Island home and his Manhattan office. His story is a memoir found after his death...
Grillparzer on schedule. During dinner there, a fire broke out in the kitchen and spread through the imitation Wienerwald. In trying to rescue Sharpy Cullen from the men's room, Richard perished in the fire, too rapidly to round out his life with one last epigram but not rapidly enough to prevent his getting the details of all but his last gasp into the memoirs-presumably by some sort of magic...
...first time, made a mistake. Koussevitzky mistook his grimace for a smile and stopped the Orchestra. In the thick Russian accents which defy reproduction, the Conductor announced, "When we make a mistake in this Orchestra, we don't laugh; we weep!" Koussevitzky was so impressed with the epigram that after the rehearsal he called Fine to his room and repeated...
...Vision. On last week's birthday Bolívar's disappointments were forgotten. It was his vision that still counted. The man who began life wealthy, who died at 47 and was laid out in a borrowed nightshirt, wrote an epigram to be carried like a torch: "The liberty of America is the hope of the universe...
...Washington wedding reception, James F. Byrnes, retired U.S. Secretary of State, found an epigram, in his bourbon: "There are no new differences between Russia and the rest of the world. It is just that the same old differences have been perfected...