Word: errants
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...stage. Unlike T.S. Eliot, Giraudoux does not couch his parable in obscurity, but is quite willing to spell out the point of the play: that man must accept and respect human limitations. When exposed to superhuman love and devotion-like that of the water sprite ondine-even a knight errant finds that his shining armor becomes rusty. He is neither worthy nor capable of returning complete love. Having only this simple "message" to comprehend, the playgoer can approach his evening as one of enjoyment rather that as a cultural double acrostic...
...doing, huh? Maybe he should get out of this business, huh? Maybe he should take up shoveling snow-we'll see if we can't arrange that." But the charge of "flat-hatting"*against aging (50) Airman Godfrey was not so easy to dismiss as an errant engineer. The charge was made by Fred...
...Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fan court's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wesely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than in Central Asia, Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan diener, as the Wazir's errant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a little horrer called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings." ("The breeze that cools the dunes there has an opposite effect on the pantaloons...
...admitted many of the limitations of his sampling, has labeled his reports preliminary: he hopes to improve on them later. In this volume he no longer tries to apply his findings to the whole U.S. And in the fine print of his statistical tables he separates the one-time errant from the long-term philanderer. But the first-glance effect of many Kinsey figures remains misleading...
...that evening Anna's father and six other Amish men were outside in a car they had borrowed for the emergency. They talked earnestly with errant Anna on the front porch. "All of a sudden they got around Anna and carried her off," said Emma. "You could see from Anna's face looking back that she was scared to death. But they didn't hurt her. They all went away...