Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slouched glumly in his rehearsal seat, Rudolf Bing blinked at the unscheduled little scene on the Metropolitan Opera stage. An impromptu chorus of stagehands was standing among the singers, bellowing Happy Birthday to You, and looking at him. Bing recalled that it was indeed his birthday, his soth. He rose with a reflex smile. "Thank you, thank you," he said. "Those," he added wryly, "were the first words this afternoon that I could understand...
Always the master of situation, Webb dashes about with authority and assurance. His poker-face expression and impromptu remark routine is just as ridiculous and sometimes just as hilarious as in his former productions. Unfortunately, the plot in this case tries to cover all the old comic situations and succeeds in laboring the obvious conflicts in modern living. From modern furniture which ends up supporting the victim on his head to neurotic relations between father and daughter to weepy family scenes, the action speeds about, leaving no emotion unexploited...
Phil Murray's abrupt about-face came just in time to stop the Steelworkers from shutting down the furnaces in anticipation of a New Year's Eve walkout. The President broke into an impromptu press conference to pass the news along to the nation. "I am happy there will be no steel strike on Jan. 1," he said, "and I am hopeful there will be no strike...
...summer friends taking their cues and comforts from well-heeled Sam and Sara Dunn, Sam's cousin Peter Cowley is a bit of a boob, but useful. Peter's job is to tame and tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...
Help from a Proverb. In a Brooklyn flat, where candles to the Virgin had been burning for more than a year, Mr. & Mrs. Philip Chiarelli saw their son's name flashed on the television screen at midnight. A minute later, excited neighbors began calling; soon an impromptu party got under way. "An Italian proverb," rejoiced father Chiarelli, "says hope is something that even the poor can afford. We had plenty of that...