Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kilty is handsomely assisted by William Roberts' monumental two-story unit set, representing a corner of Venice, complete with tessellated pavement and an animal-head fountain spouting water. The wall beneath inverted-V stairways folds out to transplant us to Portia's greenery-bedecked residence at Belmont. Gilbert Helmsley, Jr. has designed some fine lighting...
...Americans. Clearly defeated in their attempt at the higher blackmail, the Communists nevertheless regaled each other with the idiocy that the U.S. had implied recognition by the mere fact that a settlement had been made. If they seriously believed this, they had made themselves the most laughable buccaneers since Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance...
...Gilbert and Sullivan, the Statue of Liberty, and James Whitcomb Riley also emerge among the bloodied victims of Monocle's shillelagh subtlety. Charles J. Prentiss's "Remembrance of Past Things," some peppered nostalgia for the soap-box liberal (in poetic form), is the only passable selection in the current issue's seventeen attempts...
...Gilbert and Sullivan put it this...
...exhilaration felt by TIME's Gilbert Cant after a few seconds' exposure to weightlessness [June 9]: May not weightlessness of longer duration produce an empyreal euphoria comparable to the "rapture of the deep"? What if buoyancy "to the point of exaltation" makes a modern inhabitant of the heavens decide...