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...could completely live down a yarn like that, which was told to Parson Weems in 1800 by an "excellent lady." It is just such saccharine legends, overlaid with priggish nonsense, that have helped to make George Washington a forbidding figure in U.S. history. The too-well-known portraits, by Gilbert Stuart and others, haven't helped either. The frozen face of Washington that stares down on thousands of U.S. schoolkids is that of a jut-jawed old party whose cumbersome false teeth are giving him trouble...
Franck: Psyché & Le Chasseur Maudit (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). In Psyché, Franck characteristically overlaid a classic pagan myth with some of his own emotional religiosity. Its companion tone poem, Le Chasseur, based on Teutonic myth, does not come off so well. Performance: excellent...
Synge has overlaid his peasants' horseplay with his own warm Irish humor. He has taken the pungent speech in which they let themselves go, has both slyly overdresssed it and poetically beautified it, and given it matchless rhythm. The Playboy is something to hear even more than...
Solomonic Judgment? Whether the uniformed chiefs agreed or not, their diverse blueprints might yet be overlaid to make the plan of a structure which all would have to accept and support. As Senator Lister Hill (a merger advocate) told the Navy in a Solomonic judgment: "You could take that entire overall setup depicted in your chart and lay it over the Army plan without greatly disturbing either one." The Army would get the merger it has fought for; the Air Forces would get its equality; the Navy would get the overall coordination it has preached. Each would have to give...
...meeting place of the Big Three. There, on the castle grounds the Russians had planted a courtyard with red flowers in the shape of a huge red star, set against a background of smooth, carefully mowed lawn. Inside was a dark-paneled main room, furnished with a crimson carpet overlaid with a red and purple Oriental rug, a 12-ft. circular table and 15 chairs, desks for secretaries and stenographers. From the room, hallways led to private suites. Off the main room was also the main dining room, where Baptist Harry Truman, who prefers bourbon, will have to drink many...