Word: festal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four days that followed, Harold Macmillan-who plans to visit five Commonwealth nations in as many weeks-donned festal garlands, shucked off his shoes before placing a wreath on Mahatma Gandhi's shrine, ceremonially visited the spot from which British forces launched their final assault on Old Delhi during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. But the bulk of Macmillan's time was taken up in political discussion. In repeated talks with Nehru, he got an earful of Indian ideas on the necessity for nuclear disarmament and the desirability of a new summit meeting. At a banquet in Macmillan...
...brawling and festal side, this Romeo was well done. There was some individuality but little lure to Paul Rogers' Mercutio, some novelty but too much license to Wynne Clark's Nurse. What held both productions together, for all their want of urgency and luster, was a frequent feeling for the eloquence of verse, a certain knowledge of the architecture of scenes...
...silently prayed, in solemn and festal exaltation: make me to know Thy suffering this day. O make me to know Thy dear Son's suffering this...
...This World (music & lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Dwight Taylor & Reginald Lawrence; produced by Saint Subber & Lemuel Ayers) is as festal and glittering to look at as a Christmas tree. But under the tree, precious few gifts are displayed. Often, while the eye feasts on Lemuel Ayers sets and costumes, the mind wanders and the spirits slump. The decor aside, nothing in Out of This World is even remotely out of the top drawer...