Word: folderol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native Salzburg, a town that never favored Mozart's music while he lived-and which he could not abide either-spent the day in commemorative folderol, and Austria plans a whole year of Mozartish festivities. Salzburg's musical coup last week: a rare performance of his opera La Finta Semplice, composed when Mozart was too young (12) to understand its labyrinthine plot or its Italian words. Chancellor Julius Raab pledged that his country would never let another promising Austrian musician starve...
...number of votes in the preceding election. But such a system, as Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 has pointed out, would defeat the purpose of the proportional representation system by which the council is elected. It would, moreover, encourage Council candidates to spend large sums of money on campaign folderol which serves no worthwhile purpose...
...hides the girl in the attic. From there out, it is pie-in-the-eye farce, but with a gentle sigh to be heard, just offscreen, for the inexorable way of a maid with a man. Best of all is the fine satin cushion of language underneath the folderol...
...long ago, the nation's most prominent amateur golfer and one of the game's leading professionals played a friendly round at Washington's Burning Tree Club. Professional Sam Snead was awed into unaccustomed silence by all the folderol that accompanied the game ("All them cops, and you know what they got in their golf bags? Tommy guns!"). Although he noted some bad kinks in his partner's performance, he offered no advice. Coming up to the 18th tee, though, Snead could no longer keep silent. "Mind if I tell you one thing?" he asked...
...thing about all this folderol is that it may prove very popular. The huge CinemaScope screen floods the moviegoer with so much wonderful Florida sunshine that he is apt to sit back, happy as a grapefruit, and soak it up-ignoring the silly background babble of all those Hollywood tourists...