Word: nuptials
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...Complex is that very tough undertaking-a play with but three characters and one situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments, and more champagne drinking than in any stage work since The Merry Widow, the show is only spottily festive".' To prolong the journey from the psychoanalytic to the nuptial couch through three acts, the play has to detour, go in for vaudeville, toss dull cracks after bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors go to Donald Cook. No one so deftly conveys well-bred distaste or alarm-looking as though...
...Clerastianism: That heresy which accepts the supremacy of the clergy in family affairs. Members of the sect submit their infants to ceremonial headwetting while placing the tongue in a ritual position in the cheek, precede their nuptial rites by ancient formulae to which they make mental reservations, and bury their ancestors only after a ceremony which they believe will ensure respectability if not immortality...
...last week printed a special list of 85 "Forbidden Words" for his staff. Among the banned words and phrases: dragnet, aired, bared (for revealed), legal bombshell, probe (for investigate), sweeping investigations, innocent bystander, fair sex, goodies, kiddies, smoking weapon, dropped dead, ill-gotten gains, minced no words, nuptial knot, socialite, tongue-lashing, whirlwind courtship...
...best of all is V. S. Pritchett's thoroughly lighthearted, thoroughly post-Freud A Story of Don Juan, which tells how Don Juan once visited Quintero, a man whose wife had died on their wedding night. To punish Juan for his sins, Quintero tucks him into the haunted nuptial bed. Next morning Don Juan goes off jaunty as ever. Poor Quintero wonders how his scheme has misfired, spends the next night in the haunted bed himself. The ghost is still there, and her arms are "of ice no more [but] of fire...
...merry-go-round horses. The prelate was playing host to a group of youngsters from a nearby summer camp. Later, on their television sets, thousands watched the archbishop, at a special altar in Boston's station WBZ, marry a Korean war veteran and his girl in the first nuptial Mass ever to be televised...