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...really know what's going on can enjoy it nonetheless. The singers have a gutsy, raw sound, especially Valerie Gilbert and the woman who calls herself--honest--Isopropyl Pavlova in the program. The band is energetic and terrific-- Noelani Rodriguez on bass, and John Arimond, Regina Arnold, and Morley Robertson on guitar. Robertson's bizarre contortions with his instrument are particularly fun to watch...
DIED. Felix Morley, 88, Pulitzer-prize-winning editorial writer (1936) at the Washington Post, author of seven books on economics and politics, and brother of Author Christopher Morley; in Baltimore...
...Anchorman John Chancellor observed that "correspondents tend to tiptoe through interviews with royalty in this country. That's at the Palace's request." The U.S. networks tried to make up for their lack of access to the royal couple by hiring commentators such as Actors Robert Morley (ABC) and Peter Ustinov (NBC), Interviewer David Frost and Historian Lady Antonia Fraser (CBS). They did not always help. Morley joked cloyingly about his "missing invitation to St. Paul's." When Chancellor asked Ustinov why the British people love the royal family so, Ustinov said it was the same drive...
...Robert Morley, 73, actor, on how well-to-do Britons not invited to the royal wedding will hide their shame: "Check Moss Brothers. There will be lots of folks who will rent morning coats, then spend the afternoon wandering the fashionable sections of the city pretending they had been invited to the wedding...
...tenth edition of Bartlett's vibrated with new quotations from foreigners: Lewis Carroll, Nietzsche, Shaw, George Eliot (also, belatedly, Thoreau's Walden, but still no Hawthorne or Melville). The '20s and '30s brought yet another revolution in literary sensibilities, and new Editor Christopher Morley decided in 1937 that the best rule for choosing a quotation was simply his own taste. "We have tried to make literary power the criterion rather than width and vulgarity of fame," he wrote. Morley's view of literary power brought the Bartlett's debuts of Dostoevsky, Blake, Conrad...