Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aide handed him a small brown envelope. While a segment of his toast was being translated into French for foreign guests, the President read the message. His face tightened, and he stumbled slightly over his words as he continued the toast. Even as he talked, Johnson handed the note to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, seated near him. Rusk read it and quickly left the room. Later the President, in quiet fury, circulated word of the bombing among his guests...
...have been accustomed to singing the Lenten hymn, Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days. After reading of Bishop Donegan's suggestion that Lent be shortened from 40 days to a single week or two [March 12], our organist left for me the following note: "Perhaps next year we'll be singing Lord Who Threw Out These Forty Days...
...Sotheby's total for the day to $2,591,400, a new record for old masters at that house. All of which led the New York Times to suggest that the art standard might soon replace the gold standard. It might not be a bad idea: every bank note could carry a Rembrandt reproduction...
...mounted orgy in three hours flat. Ogilvie, the house detective, will accept $25,000 to forget about a hit-and-run accident. There are shortcomings, of course, and once in a while even a mechanical slipup, like the business with the elevator. The assistant general manager "made a mental note" to find out what was wrong as early as page 40. But what with one thing and another (if he wasn't replacing all Gideon Bibles bearing call girls' phone numbers on the frontispiece, he was busy "pensively knotting" a Schiaparelli tie) it gets to be page...
With Mandalayan subtlety it dawns on us what director Joel Schwartz is up to. He is putting on a comic opera and he is distinctly uneasy about it. He says in a program note he has "used the technical aspects of the production to reinforce the conventions of dramatic and musical structure." He might better have said, "to excuse" them...