Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nobody," writes Miss McGinley, "has so far received a Pulitzer Prize for contriving a poetic boiled custard, in spite of the fact (which I know from experience) that it is a feat far less easy to perform than writing a ballade." Her own recipe for boiled custard appears on page 269. Some other hints for the elegant execution of housewifery...
...that Providence quartet pulls the same feat again, it will be the ball game for McCurdy's glowing predictions...
...raffish rooftop ballet. Ed Wynn, as the risible Uncle Albert, floats upward every time he laughs, and soon has everyone aloft for the movie's most engaging scene, a high high tea. Though overlong and sometimes over-cute, Mary Poppins is the drollest Disney film in decades, a feat of prestidigitation with many more lifts than lapses...
...good deal of squabbling. General Jacques Leclerc's French 2nd Armored Division, which had received reluctant approval from the Allied high command to advance on Paris, had got bogged down but reached the city ahead of the Americans anyway, making the Liberation, at least in appearance, a feat of French arms. Right behind the troops came De Gaulle, whose chief concern was to prevent a takeover by the Communists, who had widely infiltrated the Resistance movement. By showing himself to Paris, by his supreme coolness when fired on by snipers, and by bluntly ordering the Resistance forces disarmed...
...musicologist, Brophy concentrates on the characters in Mozart's operas, believing that they "deserve the serious and searching affection-passion, even -we give to Shakespeare's, because they are total human creations." She regards this as no mean feat in the Age of Enlightenment (plainly a very dark age to Freudian Brophy), when erotic fantasy and intuitive humanity were exorcised from one Voltairean hero after another. But Mozart was a composer rather than a writer, thus suffered less harassment from the wild-eyed rationalists around him; after all, music was not to be taken seriously...