Word: godchildren
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...Aladdin's lamp. It comes from a gambling alliance that bases its calculations on a measure of snob appeal and tested blue-chip talents. After all, no other musical can boast a T.S. Eliot as its lyricist, so to speak. Even if Eliot was playfully doodling for his godchildren and friends in his 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, took Broadway's breath away last season with their monumental...
Accomplishments like his 501 wins and the Lester Patrick Award are worth only passing reference in conversations: Kelley's joy are his former players, and particularly the slew of godchildren they've given him. He delights in the memory of having escorted one player's bride-to-be down the aisle when her father was unable to attend the wedding...
When the duke died, there were no bequests to church or charity, to relatives, godchildren, lifelong friends or faithful servants. He left his entire estate to his wife, and they agreed before his death how their possessions would be distributed after she goes. Only the duchess and her bankers know the estate's value, which is probably well in excess of $10 million. This does not include the silver services and objets d'art, the superb porcelains, the furniture and paintings. Nor does it take into account such historic treasures as the desk from which he delivered...
Philippine politics gets much of its murderous passion from the compadre system, under which politicians adopt the offspring of their constituents as godchildren. Top politicos like Macapagal and Garcia are compadres to hundreds of peasant families who eagerly give their services as bodyguards, precinct workers, fund raisers and propagandists as well as voters. In return, the politicians are expected to keep their adoptive kinsmen out of jail, find places for them on the national payroll. For the country as a whole, the compadre system usually means blood feuds and built-in graft...
Which of his own works has given Eliot the most satisfaction? "I had more unadulterated pleasure out of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats-my young godchildren call me Uncle Possum-than anything else I've ever written." What would he like to write next? Possibly more poetry, but "it will have to be in a new idiom-Four Quartets brought something to an end." Possibly "abstract prose." Possibly another play "which would be completely successful theatrically and give the highest possible quotient of poetry." Smilingly he added: "That's aiming at Shakespeare under different...