Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five songs of John Perkins, using texts from Robert Herrick and the translations of Ezra Pound, are noteworthy for their formal finish. The music uses various, rather derivative, idioms, suggesting now French Impressionism, now late-German Romanticism; but this mobility is used to good advantage in catching the shifting moods of the texts...
...Norway, Denmark and Sweden are cutting deliveries to dealers by 10% to 20%, are talking of formal rationing soon. Swedish industry depends on oil for 44% of its total fuel; production has already been cut back at the Volvo auto factory...
...equal dislike of the Arabs. Israel has most stable and most democratic government in the area, a victory-flushed army probably capable of defeating all Arab nations together. Last week, having withdrawn their ambassador, the Russians sent Israel a stiff note questioning its "existence" as a state. Without formal allies, Israel now finds it necessary to stand as close...
...Dogpatchers can be dull when they walk, they are dazzling when they run. Choreographer Kidd's Sadie Hawkins Day ballet is a wonderful matrimonial chase in which Al Capp's womenfolk become amorous Keystone Cops. In the Visigothic descent of the Dogpatchers on General Bullmoose's formal ball, Kidd has created one of the memorable shambles scenes in Broadway history. And for the show's rousingest music, Jubilation T. Cornpone, Kidd has made a packed stageful of bodies rock with movement while their voices are raised in song...
...himself with a young Irish lady just 16-"formed like a Grecian nymph . . . her father with an estate of ?1,000 a year and above ?10,000 in ready money. Upon my honour, I never was so much in love." When Bozzy set off to Ireland to make a formal bid for the nymph, he took with him his favorite cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Sweet Peggy acted as his counselor-and kibitzed so cutely that Bozzy forgot the object of his journey and proposed to Peggy instead. Their marriage contract bore the stern signature "Sam. Johnson. Witness...