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Occasionally a few brave souls, among them this writer, try for a local show. Then, if there is something really tweedy on, the little women swarm to the Brattle, where the debutantes rub elbows with the intellectuals, and respectability survives...
...World War II, French African states have had elected assemblies responsible for the machinery of local government. In addition, the territories elected deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, where they picked up considerable political experience on an international scale-and let a little French culture rub off on them. African army officers were schooled at Saint-Cyr, received commissions in the French Army; apprentice diplomats were trained at the Quai d'Orsay, served as counselors and secretaries in French em bassies around the world...
This convenient cultural pattern, so widely accepted by many non-Catholics, may too easily rub off on less devout and intellectual Catholic families...
...Toby says, "Let's have a catch it is ridiculous for Andrew to comment, "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast," unless they have sung a catch. As the disguided Viola, Katharine Hepburn is properly masculine and looks surprisingly young; but her voice-ay, there's the rub. Her delivery is jarring, mechanical, and unintelligent; both she and the director fall even to perceive that the rhythm of "your own most pregnant and voch safed ear" demands that the penultimate word be trisyliabic. Herman Chessid's incidental music is inferior, though his songs are good ("O Mistress Mine...
...office caste system is hardest on those newly promoted, because it forces them-and their wives-to break away from friends. A wife, says one executive, "can be downright dangerous if she insists on keeping close friendships with the wives of her husband's subordinates. Her friendships will rub off on him, color his judgment about the people under him, jeopardize...