Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falklands crisis was perceived by some, before the killing started, as an amusing anachronism. At the State Department, in the early hours of the crisis, most of the staff shared the amusement of the press and public over what was perceived as a Gilbert and Sullivan battle over a sheep pasture between a choleric old John Bull and a comic dictator in a gaudy uniform. Among the White House staff, there was little sense of urgency...
...said Kaufman, "a retraction may serve as a more realistic balm for ravaged reputations than does monetary compensation." Libel plaintiffs may agree, according to Gilbert Cranberg, Gallup Professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa. In his study of some 114 cases, he says, plaintiffs show "great interest in vindication rather than money...
What highlighted Peter Sellars' egoism and insecurity that evening did not have to do with the orchestra, though. Having previously decried artistic intolerance in others, Sellars demonstrated himself as a hypocrite of the worst sort, insulting the validity of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Society, cast and material both. It's true that Mr. Sellars was refused the directorship of a G&S production as an undergraduate: his subsequent poorly-reviewed production of an adulterated Mikado demonstrated why. But to hold a grudge against an uninvolved party because of thwarted aspirations of years before is not only unmerited, but unbelievable...
...Gilbert H. Mudge, assistant professor of medicine and a member of the team, told WNAC-TV last night that Shelales was "scared but relieved." He added, "he's been waiting a long time...
Timid, tongue-tied, earnest to a fault, Gilbert de La Fayette did not seem bound for glory. He embarrassed himself on horseback, stumbled on the dance floor. But he had a fine old name, and after his father died when Gilbert was two years old and his mother when he was twelve, Gilbert came into a handsome fortune. Hating court life in the Versailles of Louis XV, the marquis went into the army. At 19, with only the briefest of military training, he set off to become a hero of the American Revolution...