Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break off diplomatic relations with Mexico and personally because a rather odd libel action had been brought against me by Miss Shirley Temple, the child film star. When I returned from the south to Mexico City with an attack of dysentery, I found a letter from my publisher . . . the Lord Chief Justice had taken a severe view of the case and there was some danger that I might be arrested on my return. But by the time I had received my mail I had taken such a distaste to Mexico that even an English prison promised relief...
...lawyer by training and a resourceful negotiator, Christian Socialist Gorbach symbolizes his country's mellow talent for compromise and conciliation; after Dachau he urged a forgive-and-forget attitude toward ex-Nazis not guilty of specific crimes. (" 'Good Lord,' I asked myself, 'how often shall victory and persecution alternate with each other?' ") But last week even Gorbach's conciliatory skills could not budge the U.S. from its stand opposing Market entry of neutral nations...
Harry Smith's Puck, by contrast, is a curiously dour figure. An extremely active and athletic Puck, he nonetheless refuses to enjoy himself; "Lord, what fools these mortals be" comes out as a hoarse shrick of despair. He is a virtuoso, but he as not Puck. Yet with the help of Barbara Channing's costume (all her costumes are delightful) and Gregory Levin's music he performs some bewitching dances. I wish I could say as much of the fairies (one of them, oddly enough, is missing), who dance capably enough but who sadly jar the harmony of court-yard...
Married. Sarah Churchill, 47, occasional actress and Sir Winston's frolicsome second daughter; and Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, Lord Audley, 48, elegant onetime manufacturer of crystal tableware; she for the third time, he for the second; in Gibraltar's Rock Hotel...
...music that serves as his alarm clock is always by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose work Barth describes as a "constant of my existence." "When the angels praise God in Heaven," Barth once wrote, "I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart, and then God the Lord is especially delighted to listen to them...