Word: potpourris
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Despite any good intentions for his country, Eden, via his appallingly reckless policies, has foisted upon an already troubled free world another onerous, odious potpourri of perplexities, anxieties, and fears...
...lilt of a song. Ray Bolger, the greatest U.S. comic dancer and a veteran of 30 years in show business, was back at work in TV-and just in time to inject some merriment into TV's procession of tired clowns. In a $1,500,000 musical potpourri called Washington Square, a sentimental paean to Manhattan's self-consciously picturesque Greenwich Village, Hoofer Bolger is making his second attempt (his first live series) to win on TV the success he long ago won on the stage...
...moving from the stage to TV, Borge's show suffered a loss of the intimacy that the unmelancholy Dane's comic style demands. The hilarious mood of Comedy in Music was also seriously damaged by an overlong potpourri of Tchaikovsky melodies, played by a full orchestra and conducted by a Borge suddenly turned serious maestro. But despite everything, his comic talents survived the screen, and he got his deserved laughs as he coughed his way through Debussy's Claire de Lune, tangoed his way through Jealousy while sitting at the piano, doublecrossed the studio audience by playing...
...play that first gave the Pudding a national reputation was "Dido and Aeneas" presented in 1882. It was shown in the usual tradition, complete with exploding altars and discourses on chastity, but it did have an excellent book, garnished with music described by Samuel Eliot Morison '08 as "a potpourri of Offenbach, Suppe, Bizet, Meyerbeer, and Wagner...
Early this month the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Conductor Thor Johnson played De Gastyne's third symphony. Critics found it to be a highly promising work, but with far too many ideas-a potpourri of styles recalling Stravinsky, Ravel, Gershwin. Best feature: confident orchestration that sounds as if Composer de Gastyne enjoyed playing around with masses of pleasant sounds...