Word: ist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soprano voice of TV Actress Marjorie (The Danny Thomas Show) Lord. She's playing Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate, a down-and-out Roman citizen who in better days was-yes, that's the one-the procurator of Judea. It's some time in the ist century. Claudia is dictating a letter to her friend Fulvia: "I am the wife of the man who condemned Christ Jesus to death. If even here children slink away from us, let me believe that somewhere, some woman will understand-even as she, the mother of Jesus, would have understood...
...still wiser. It occurred to him that his speech still lacked color. How smashing it would be to spice it up with occasional quotations, foreign phrases, and literary allusions. When his parents observed that he had stopped going to church on Sundays he quipped, hardly to their amusement, "Gott ist tot, you know." When one of his roommates complained that Herbert badly needed a haircut, he answered gravely "De gustibus..." and left it to his listener to supply the ending. And when his other roommate asked to borrow ten dollars for a date, Herbert came back with "Neither a borrower...
...heal the ancient feud between Gaul and Teuton. On his state visit to West Germany, he went out of his way to wring Germans' hands and bid them Guten Tag. Few Germans who heard him could fail to be moved when De Gaulle cried: "Das deutsche Volk ist ein grosses Volk." A popular Christmas gift in West Germany last week was a recording of the speeches he made on that trip. Its name: De Gaulle in Germany, the Symbol of European Understanding...
...growing old great-fully. Critics, casting about for the causes of failed promise, justly note a complex of external factors: the loss of old, stable values once held in common between readers and writer; the absence of a society sufficiently established to provide the potential novel ist with a rich background of mores and customs for his characters. But much of the trouble is internal. So few younger novelists age well these days because so many of them have difficulty in growing...
...several other girls he was leaving behind. Stolz was bitten by the composing bug while he was conductor of Vienna's Theater-an-der-Wien, wrote some of his first real hits while serving as an army clerk in World War I. Among them: Lang, lang ist's her (700 performances), Madel küss mich (750). Sperrsechserl (a phenomenal 2,600 performances beginning...