Word: singularability
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...Singular Difference...
...this one has come to expect from the G & S Players; they possess the singular ability of fashioning entertainment out of dull nineteenth-century spoofs. But because of the ridiculously large number of playlets that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote, they can only occasionally hit upon an operetta that has any humor of its own. Iolanthe, happily, is such an operetta: W.S. Gilbert, for once, lampooned a group he actually knew by sight--instead of pirates and Japanese--and the result, coupled with Sir Arthur's magnificent mock-hymns, was a grandly devastating jibe at the Victorian Establishment. Peers sweep around...
...port of call, and so did Bill Tilden, Knute Rockne, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Vincent Sheean, Jack Dempsey, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine to U.S. booze, and the only place in Paris where a homesick American could buy a genuine...
...singular genius of the framers of the so-called Blue Laws to discover the peculiar Truth that any activity carried on in Greater Boston of a Sunday must invariably be infected with an air of cavernous gloom (man should certainly be discouraged from drinking on a day when Liquor would only bring on a bilious attack); and it is only to be regretted that they did not enlarge their prescription to include orchestral concerts. For last night's Bach Society concert was certainly a flaccid and weary affair for the most part, and perhaps far-sighted and selfless Legislation might...
Enter a new kind of English hero. He is young but not angry. He couldn't care less about whether there is room at the top. He is a vague and vagrant first person singular who drifts through a colloid of far-out characters that are his (and his plot's) only visible means of support. His mate is a dim, dumb, sensible girl, who pulls up his socks from time to time and does her best to dry his tears of existential anguish...