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French Playwright Anouilh has too often been dismissed as a kind of verbal dandy. Yet his underlying vision of life is dark and inconsolable. Anouilh's characters suffer with a quip on their lips while stretched on a rack that is the distance between the way things are and the way they want them to be. Anouilh is not interested in either ex posing or extolling his characters. He simply wants to catch them, and the audience, in the cruel toils of the human situation, masked, as it always is, with deceptive everyday smiles. Of The Rehearsal...
...even with an aristocrat turned columnist like Lord Castlerosse. Bevan behaved as if his own talent and exuberance gave him a spectator's seat rather than an underdog's role in the old British game of class soccer. After a fine meal with good wine he would quip: "You can always live like a millionaire for five minutes." This is the tone of the bohemian rather than the social reformer. And when he set up house with pretty Socialist Jennie Lee, the Bevan cottage was exactly the sort of modest weekend retreat inhabited by a thousand middle-class...
...jobs and wealth in an economy whose primary product, beef for Britain, has been the same for as long as there have been potatoes to go with it. As new opportunity at home lowers the perilously high emigration rate, the government is finally beginning to rebut the bitter quip that Ireland is "a home for men rather than a breeding ground for emigrants and bullocks." The country's rapturous huzzas for John Kennedy were more than an expression of pride in a Gael made good -to many young Irishmen, he seems more real than the Irish martyrs whose streaked...
...bedrooms have four solid walls, the Galbraiths' upstairs living room and the main guest suite have grillwork for their front walls. Anyone in the ambassador's room can look directly across the interior court into the main guest suite, a situation that caused an early visitor to quip: "People who live in Stone houses should undress in the dark." By hanging curtains along the grillwork walls, this problem has been alleviated...
...warheads for the Bomarcs. And throughout the campaign, he had attacked Diefenbaker for his anti-Americanism. "I've been charged with being soft on Communism," said Pearson at one point. "Now I'm charged with being soft on Americans. I'm making progress." It was a quip then. But Diefenbaker's manipulation of McNamara's words had obviously put Pearson on the defensive...