Word: impromptu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lyndon took over again from the statesman. Setting out on a tour of local sights, Johnson spotted a crowd gathered on the sidewalk. He stopped his car, got out and made for the crowd at a lope, flashing a 100-watt smile. Ignoring the language barrier, he made an impromptu speech saying that Diem was the "Churchill of the decade," who would "fight Communism in the streets and alleys, and when his hands are torn he will fight it with his feet...
...Folle (Mad Night), Minister of Culture Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux delivered a stirring address to an unlikely crowd of Resistance veterans, movie starlets, beatniks and the sports-car set up from St.-Tropez. They all struggled into ill-fitting boots and khaki uniforms as members of an impromptu militia...
...Impromptu de Versailles is a play within a play within a play within a play, and the theme of all the plays is--plays. The Pirandelloid construction gives Moliere, who played the part of Moliere in the original production at Versailles, a chance to parody his critics, the actors in opposing companies, Corneille, courtiers, and a variety of inexpressibly minor playwrights. What is more, he sets up standards of performance which the Comedie Francaise has been achieving (with few lapses) ever since. The play is slight, compared to Moliere's more serious or more farcical efforts, but its brilliant...
Concerned with rehearsing something rushed into production on Louis XIV's orders, L'Impromptu wags a finger in several directions: a little at the King for his capricious commands, a lot at Molière's enemy actors in a rival troupe, a lot more at acting itself. In L'lmpromptu, Molière personally directs the rehearsal, sketches actors' roles, silhouettes their shortcomings, and is now friendly, now irritable, now ironic amid travestied types of people and exaggerated modes of acting. With the Comédie Française players bringing a sense...
...modern success story of which it cannot be said, "It couldn't have happened if there had been income taxes and the Sherman Act." The "lucky break" which started his public relations career came in 1935 after a shipping company representative heard his business views in an impromptu speech. By 1948 he had half a dozen offices throughout the country but was still an ordinary public relations man practicing "his brand" of public services. In September of 1948 a friend invited him to breakfast to discuss a job as trouble shooter for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United...