Word: jester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than he usually gets, Author Gregory believes. He sees Whistler as a proto-impressionist, as an early Western exponent of Japanese and Chinese techniques, and as the experimental godfather of modern nonobjective painting. Less debatably, Author Gregory ranks Whistler as a culture hero who refused to play drawing-room jester to Victorian philistines and who always regarded art as a basic necessity, not a superficial luxury of civilized life...
Next day, beneath leaden skies, Mamie Eisenhower and Mrs. George Allen arrived by train; on hand to meet them were Ike and Jester George, whose early-October Palm Springs hospitality the Eisenhowers were returning. As they chatted on the platform, Mamie looked at the overcast, said to Mary Allen: "If the sun doesn't shine, Ike will be mad." Ike, sporting the National's green blazer and a grey and tan checkered sports shirt, replied confidently: "Don't worry, it will burn off." Sure enough, sunshine poked through the clouds that afternoon; after some paper work...
...those wrinkles that are the map of earned character. But Truman Capote he sees devastatingly as a lounging, feline figure, with a prim mouth and enormous cold spectacles. Elsa Maxwell becomes, in a spectacularly strong and concise portrait, a court dwarf out of Velasquez. Says Bouché: "A court jester, but also a desperately serious woman who considers herself a serious critic of society...
Putzi, as the piano-playing Hanfstaengl was called, had been a supporter of Hitler from before the 1923 putsch and became the Fuehrer's "court jester" until he fled Germany...
...evenings: Vladimir Levashev, who danced the role of the Evil Sorcerer with briny conviction and made his final, crippled death dance a wonderful virtuoso exercise; Nicolai Fadeyechev, who was superb as the Prince, particularly in his leaps in the Act III Black Swan variations; Georgi Soloviev as an acrobatic Jester (a happy Russian addition to the ballet). Occasionally ragged the first evening, the Bolshoi's Swan Lake was danced with fine precision at the second performance. The repetitive, copybook attitudes of the ballet corps occasionally clotted the action and wearied the eye. But for the most part...