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Years ago, a brash young man, visiting in the Beacon Street home of Godfrey Lowell Cabot, asked his host how it felt to be both a Lowell and a Cabot. The question was greeted with thunderous silence. The guest tried manfully to excuse his faux pas. "I'm afraid," he murmured, "that's a pretty silly question, Mr. Cabot." Replied Cabot: "Young man. it's the damnedest silliest question I've been asked in 80 years...
...Prince and Princess. Proper Britons boggled over the fact that Stash is now a British subject, thus could correctly use his title only if he had a special license from the Queen, which might be as hard to get as some annulments. The accepted explanation for the faux pas was that palace protocol officers consciously elevated the Radziwills on that occasion out of deference to President Kennedy...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. Pas pour les enfants: a story, updated by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco from a feverish romance by Balzac, of love on the AC-DC circuit...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. Pas pour les enfants: a story, adapted by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco from a feverish romance by Balzac, of love on the AC-DC circuit...
...find Leontyne Price singing Tosca, despite the white singer in the romantic lead opposite her. The ballet, too, has recognized Negro talent and given dancers parts that ignore their color: at the New York City Ballet Arthur Mitchell dances a wide range of the repertory, including pas de deux with white ballerinas. The historical distance and artistic level of the classics give roles an existence apart from those who play them, an advantage that modern theater unavoidably lacks...