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...prolific output of technical and popular philosophy, social criticism and history, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and England's Order of Merit. Such respectability made the inveterate outsider in Russell uneasy. Occasionally, those bestowing the honors were uncomfortable too. As he was decorating the philosopher imp with the Order of Merit, King George euphemistically remarked...
...something to be jubilant about. The stars are the kind you see in the skies−Patrice Munsel, Cyril Ritchard, Tammy Grimes, Larry Kurt, John Raitt, Dick Shawn and Lillian Gish. The three ladies stand out: Munsel with her silver-tongued lyric soprano; Grimes, who is a mischievous imp of the stage; and the in destructible Gish, who at 80 is still a darling little girl and a valiant trouper...
...inflation and recession that have added to the company's woes. Chrysler also has many troubles of its own. Since it came to Britain in 1964, it has introduced only one genuinely new car, the rather ordinary five-passenger Avenger sedan; its two other models-the Volkswagen-like Imp and the Hunter-were developed by Rootes Motors Ltd., the company that Chrysler bought. Accordingly, Chrysler's share of the British auto market has dropped from a high of 12% in 1967 to less than 7% this year. Since January, Chrysler has laid off 4,000 employees...
...Joan escapes Shaw's didactic clutches, and that is why audiences love her. She is an imp of candor and a lioness in courage. She lacks all humor but makes up for it with backslapping bonhomie. Minutes after she has been ushered into the presence of the Dauphin, she is calling him "Charley...
...Lenny Bruce, hypocrisy was the prime obscenity. He wanted to exorcise it publicly. He wanted the hypocrite in each member of the audience to confess and condemn himself. He was a messianic imp of the perverse who wanted to cleanse souls through blasphemy, to free language with four-letter words, to restore nudity and copulation and natural bodily functions to the innocent purposes of nature...