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Sideline Seat. Nowadays, Columnist Rose is waist-deep in the fanciest possible metaphors. At its best, his talk combines the shriller styles of E. E. Cummings, a nightspot headwaiter, P. T. Barnum and a Polo Grounds peanut vendor. But he flavors this potpourri with a cynical wit. "What people don't seem to see," he complains, "is the Billy who sits on the sidelines and laughs at the game...
Original Ballet Russe--Sel Hurok's potpourri, straight from the Met, arrives at the Opera House tonight...
Camille (Ballet Russe), a turgid fancy-dress charade by New York City-born John Taras to a potpourri of Schubert piano pieces. Even Markova could not breathe life into Dumas' consumptive heroine...
Political Potpourri? Other repercussions of Commander Stelle's blast gave him good cause to regret that he had ever pulled the pin. General Ike Eisenhower promptly pledged Bradley his support "anywhere . . . anytime." Other veterans' organizations rushed to Bradley's defense. Said the hustling, growing American Veterans of World War II (Amvets): "General Bradley has not been playing politics. . . . Before Bradley the VA was an American Legion political potpourri...
Mormonism's early growth in the revivalist, reformist 18303 stemmed not so much from its theology (a potpourri of American religious thought spiced with a characteristic 19th-century belief in the inevitability of progress) as from the personality of Smith. Divine revelation, his ultimate authority in all things, was an unanswerable instrument of power. He used it to create and maintain his theocratic dictatorship...