Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bolder feats or abductions. We have a vague notion that Italy has the monopoly on banditry−bandit being of Italian origin−and that kidnaping is as much part of the Italian scene as opéra bouffe. (The great master of English opéra bouffe, W.S. Gilbert, was kidnaped as a baby in Naples−an event both Neapolitan and Gilbertian.) And it is true that it has traditionally been hard to think of Italy as tranquil, law-abiding, prepared to solve its problems through calm discussion and the slow process of democracy. Italy is a very...
...pads about his office in his socks, has an easy rapport with his top staff, which CAB critics agree is one of the sharpest in Washington. An outgoing man, Kahn has brought a new sense of style and unpredictability to the once stodgy agency. He has a passion for Gilbert and Sullivan, which he often indulged at Cornell by singing and prancing in student productions. His other obsession is clear English. Says he: "If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong." He admits that his fight against bureaucratic...
Still within the realm of comedy, let's move across the Channel, move up a hundred years, and move over to Winthrop House, to a joint Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan Players and Winthrop Drama Society Production--or rather, productions. This attraction is a double bill. One of the shows has not been presented here since 1875. It's an opera called Cox and Box, written by Arthur Sullivan in his pre-Gilbert Days. However, the opera in a sense led to the team's establishment. W.S. Gilbert, a critic for "Punch" magazine, wrote a nasty review of the show. He loved...
...delicate bawdry. Not surprisingly, the co-author of the libretto is a storyteller of no mean skill, Larry L. King, an accomplished journalist who wrote a compact account of the actual facts underlying Whorehouse after they occurred. To tell it as it is in the show, a rural community, Gilbert, has long tolerated, secretly relished, and certainly patronized a venerable bordello run in a rectitudinous fashion that would be the envy of most private-school headmasters today. Governors, Senators and mayors unwind from the cares of office in the chambers of the Chicken Ranch, as the place is known from...
...tell Harvard how to manage its endowment. Rather, we are simply demanding that the University practice what it preaches. Far from hurting its ability to pursue its academic goals, Harvard's divestiture of its South African holdings will enhance its academic reputation and its ability to teach its students. Gilbert Fleitas...