Word: felix
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...school segregation. Eisenhower Appointee Warren soon added a solid third vote to the activist bloc of Black and William O. Douglas. In William J. Brennan Jr., another Ike appointee, the bloc picked up a fairly dependable fourth vote. The decisive fifth came in 1962, when the ailing judicial restrainer, Felix Frankfurter, retired, to be succeeded by President Kennedy's gung-ho Labor Secretary, Arthur Goldberg...
...great man's life in a series of slapstick sketches played against the ricky-tick accompaniment of Yes! We Have No Bananas. In the sprawling Villa Tremolo, where he keeps his women (among them such Bergman favorites as Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson), Maestro Felix is heard but seldom seen. The women are the issue, for the artist's playthings, like his public, adore him, scorn him, help him, hinder him, pay him all the tributes that mediocrity pays to genius-and when he is gone, they quickly find another genius to take his place...
Bergman's primary target is the foppish critic (Jarl Kulle) who sniffs out the "personal details" of Felix's life, even appropriates one of his mistresses. He composes critical jargon so dense that he himself cannot penetrate it ("What the hell do I mean by that?"), writes atrocious music, and finally wheedles Felix into playing it. Once compromised, the cellist collapses, corporeally and artistically kaput...
...interest on today's national debt would pay the salary of every teacher at Harvard for about 400 years," he McCulloch levelled a strong attack upon charged. The Supreme Court for its legislative reapportionment decisions, pointing out that former Justice Felix Frankfurter had cautioned the Court against involvement in this "legislative thicket...
...turned them into songs but turned the songs into symphonies. The texts are often grim or sardonic. The "tra-la-lee" in Reveille celebrates a roll call when "dead comrades muster," and after St. Anthony preaches to the fishes, "the carp's still a glutton, and sermon forgotten." Felix Prohaska conducts the orchestral accompaniment for the Swiss baritone, Heinz Rehfuss, and the Canadian-born contralto, Maureen Forrester, who divide the songs and the honors between them...