Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native England, Playwright-Actor-Director Peter Alexander Ustinov did so little TV that one critic mourned: "Genius is going to waste. That multitalented marvel, that compendium of comedy, has no sense of his duty to mankind-especially the part that watches TV." Luckily for viewers across the Atlantic, peripatetic Peter Ustinov is busting out all over U.S. television...
Witty Sting. Wunderkind Ustinov was born in London, a descendant of a titled Russian who was exiled in 1868. (Peter's grandmother owned the largest caviar fishery in czarist Russia.) His father, a German citizen, was a journalist, spent 14 years as press attache at the German embassy in London. Peter drifted out of school in his teens and into London cabarets, where his mocking monologues kidded diplomats and aristocrats, prima donnas and generals. At an irreverent 18, he enchanted Londoners by mimicking-in ersatz Swahili-an addled bishop of the Church of England who had stayed too long...
...manna from Heaven, to the feeding of the multitudes and the Last Supper. The resurrected Christ was specifically recognized by the breaking of bread at Emmaus (Luke 24:30, 35), by eating a piece of broiled fish in Jerusalem (Luke 24:42), and by cooking breakfast for Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany Press; $3.95). Author Marian Maeve O'Brien, food editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, teaches Sunday-school at Grace Episcopal Church in suburban...
Starting in foil for Harvard will be Peter Boyce, Mike Klapper, and Bill Trebilcock. They will face a serious double threat in John Norton and Peter Pohly of Yale, both left-handers and both excellent foilmen. Norton, ranked fourth in NCAA standings last year, and Pohly is a foilman turned sabreman turned foilman...
...poets are too many for discussion here. They range from Peter Jones (who edits an English little magazine) to Peter Heliczer. Even I. A. Richards and a San Francisco poet contribute minor works. Taken as a lump (or, with Mr. Wyman's permission, a "citadel") the poets are craftsmen of word and form, but that's about all. Images like "oval charm" and "cockpit of empyreuma" sound better sans inspection. And some of the poems rhyme...