Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closer to Glasgow than it is to Dublin, especially on a Sunday. It may help to fix the type if you realize that Woodrow Wilson and Field Marshal Montgomery were both descendants of Ulster. Picture these men locked in a small country with a bunch of unreconstructed Gaels and marvel that the place is as quiet...
Though the Staatsoper has regained much of its prewar luster, it is no longer the unquestioned queen of the world's opera houses. Acoustically, the theater itself is a marvel. Yet even Vienna's chauvinistic critics will concede that artistic standards at New York's Met and Milan's La Scala are at least as high. More exciting days, though, may be ahead. Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphig...
...great tragedy holds a mirror up to man's virtues. It girds playgoers with borrowed strength by showing how man may bear the unbearable. Great comedy, on the other hand, holds a mirror up to man's follies and vices. Where tragedy argues that man is a marvel, comedy insists that he is a fool. Tragedy elevates; comedy deflates...
...Cesar Chavez. I dare them to tell black children in Mississippi that punishing Humphrey is worth the price of letting a Nixon-Agnew-Thurmond administration halt school desegregation. And if the New Politics dropouts can do all that with straight faces, then I can only marvel at their cynicism and callousness. Or perhaps simply their utter foolishness...
...Prohibition. Can they really mean it-using this sort of stuff on TV in 1968? Laugh-In's producers know bad jokes when they use them. There is an element of camp and reverse sophistication in this, reminiscent of making a cult of Charlie Chan movies and Captain Marvel comic books. Besides, the outrageous jokes are thrown into the machinery of the show to create contrast and surprise, and to give viewers a chance to catch up with some fast, good jokes that may have come earlier-or so the show's apologists rationalize...