Word: jestering
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...Reader Gettler gave up too soon. Here is the list: 1) Falstaff; 2) Richard III; 3) the Shakespearean jester, e.g., Touchstone; 4) Ariel (whose hand, trumpet and feet stuck out behind the cover slash); 5) Caliban; 6) Hamlet (with Yorick); 7) King Lear; 8) & 9) Antony and Cleopatra; 10) & 11) Petruchio and the shrew he tamed, Katharina; 12) Ophelia; 13) & 14) Othello and his ill-fated wife, Desdemona; 15) & 16) Juliet and Romeo; 17) a gravedigger from Hamlet; 18) & 19) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; 20), 21) & 22) the three witches from Macbeth, stirring their boiling cauldron; 23) & 24) Bottom...
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Andy Williams in The Man in the Moon, a musical special, with Lisa Kirk, Tony Randall, Diahann Carroll, Bambi Linn and Jester Hairston. Color...
...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...