Word: jollyness
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What a jolly little laugh we all had the first time that one was used! It takes a person who's running for Congress, we said, to make pot smoking sound like a required laboratory assignment in the honors section of Microbiology 201.
Especially since the separation, the boys' leisure life follows two strikingly different tracks. With Charles it's off to one of the family estates. Sandringham, a vast Victorian pile in Norfolk, is a plinker's paradise stocked with a variety of game birds. Like his father, Wills is an enthusiastic...
The fripperies--parietals, coats and ties in the Freshman Union, Jolly-Ups (remember Jolly-Ups?)--simply faded away, pathetic relics. The war, fighting the war--fighting against the war--engulfed us. We were fighting to change the world. We held sit-ins and mill-ins and teach-ins, marched in...
The evening's centerpiece was Carl Maria von Weber's Bassoon Concerto in F Major, a piece which even the concert program admitted "lacks something in originality." At best, the concerto is lively and clever, taking advantage of the bassoon's peculiar, step-like dexterity; the third movement's themes...
Welles, thrilled by Mankiewicz's idea for a Hearst film, was also desperate. His first RKO project--Heart of Darkness, which would be told with a subjective camera and would star Welles as Marlow and Kurtz--was deemed too pricey. Now, with Mank's unbilled help (the deal specified no...