Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rules of procedures. Questions were recorded in advance on an "order paper," and the Speaker later posed them by simply referring to the number of the question and name of the questioner. The result was frequently a totally unilluminating exchange that sounded Like: Speaker: "Mr. Smith." Minister: "No, sir, I will not." That left listeners wondering whether the question was "Will you please resign?" or, perhaps, "Will you address yourself to the price of beans in Liverpool?" Confusion was compounded by the Commons' tradition of referring to members by their constituencies rather than their surnames. Relatively few listeners, presumably...
...Mahler's Fourth, a genial pastoral masterpiece, has a flowing line rarely matched in current interpretations and an intimacy that, comes close to Bruno Walter's incomparable recording of the 1940s. The formidable Chicago Symphony sounds somewhat more relaxed than it often does under its regular leader, Sir Georg Sold, but it plays every bit as attentively...
...world knows Sir Oswald Mosley best at his worst-as the leader of the Union of British Fascists, who, flanked by black-shirted Biff Boys in the 1930s, praised Mussolini and Hitler and parroted their antiSemitism. But in fact, Mosley, now 78, has mesmerized, enraged and even amused generations of Englishmen, first as a Conservative M.P., then as an Independent Liberal, a Socialist Laborite, a Fascist isolationist and, finally, as a postwar internationalist preaching European unity. As the sixth in a line of Yorkshire baronets, Mosley frequently wore his own black shirt under a Savile Row suit...
Dollop of Charm. Yet it was Sir Noel's last great commercial success, and it has its virtues-notably as a study of that curious and enduring institution, the show-biz entourage. Like most stars, Essendine cannot live with the fatuities of his followers. Nor can he be without their faithful responses to every shift in pressure registered by his absurdly delicate inner barometer. For their part, his manager, his producer, his ex-wife and the women who will not be denied his bed are ever willing to allow him to quell their exasperation with a dollop of charm...
Time has been considerably kinder to Comfort's ideas than to Come Out to Play. Its fey style and potty names (Fossil-Fundament, Sir Frank Pus) seem as ephemeral as fruit flies. Worse, Goggins' description of monogamous marriage as the act of buying "meat in unopened cans" is enough to make celibate vegetarianism seem downright appealing.* Paul Gray