Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the chorus dominates the production and, in this case, typifies its vigor and beautiful clumsiness. The fairies, while retaining their mock grace throughout, have enough individuality of feature to be genuinely comic, rather than a mere weary shuffling crowd. And the Peers manage to retain their stiff upper lips almost all the time, but fortunately not quite all the time. (Besides, they manage some very nice harmonies.) Richard Grand, the stage director, keeps them moving just enough to keep things lightsome...
Unlike Mindszenty, Cardinal Wyszynski had not even had a mock trial. After denouncing Poland's Red regime, he was arrested in 1953, simply disappeared from view. He, too, was moved constantly, was guarded at one time by 60 security police. The cardinals' steadfastness under persecution, Pope Pius XII had said, was "a spectacle of spectacles to the world, to angels...
...doing business at his old stand. In protest at Prime Minister Ichiro Hato-yama's avowed intention of flying to Moscow to negotiate a World War II peace treaty with the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Sept. 24), Sagoya and the khaki-clad toughs of his "National Protection Society" staged a mock funeral service for the ailing, 73-year-old Premier. On top of an altar, flanked by artificial flowers, sat a 12-ft. high Buddhist memorial tablet that described Hatoyama as "traitorous, greedy, cowardly and paralytic...
...pace is occasionally revived by the music in such lively songs as the mock-eloquent "Jubilation T. Cornpone" and the snappy "What's Good for General Bullmoose." Few of the other songs, however, help. After an overture that is loud, fast, and trite the show includes several mediocre tunes and one or two ugly, sentimental mistakes...
...Meyer Kupferman, a Steinishly childlike spoof on royalty that was the success of the evening. ("Redolent, that's the word for the music," approved one Edinburgh matron. "It was the essence of nostalgia.") Next came Sweet Betsy from Pike, by Manhattan's Mark Bucci, a horsy mock-western. The bill closed with The Pot of Fat, by Massachusetts' Theodore Chanler, a Grimm parable about a cat and mouse who married and then found out about their incompatibilities. The crowd clapped the company to the rafters...