Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total exposure of genteel lust is an invitation from Mr. Noel Coward to step into his parlor. Once enmeshed in that strategically appointed web, the spectator is enticed by sheer wit to rest his repressions as the master's charming child-adults parade their riotously adulterous lives. The Blithe Spirit Private Lives formula is only slightly varied, but the cracks are fresh and strictly bon ton. Here are no new ideas, no thought, no stimulation--unless concurrent mistresses is your idea of a good time. Dear Noel's world, artfully constructed of gold cloth and pastel pasteboard, contains no people...
...bluff Secretary General Trygve Lie patted the earnest, scholarly delegates on the back, praised "the spirit of agreement that I have found in this council." But he worried because U.N. agencies were using paper at the rate of 1,000,000 sheets a day to produce tentative findings and recommendations which might never get beyond the paper stage...
...crowd roared Land of Hope and Glory, with Churchill hoarsely joining in. It was clear that the grand old man had given the party fresh spirit. But had he satisfied the party's "Young Turks"? If, indeed, the party did regain power, what was to be done about the nationalization already in effect? Said one young delegate: "We can't very well unscramble that omelet...
...Ministry of Fine Arts, which would encourage good music. Every state should have eets own radio station and eets own symphony orchestra. But everything ees left to private corporations. Eet ees not enough that we have fine roads and bridges and houses. We must have good music for the spirit...
Married. Peggy Wood, 52, versatile, Brooklyn-born actress (Old Acquaintance, Blithe Spirit); and William Henry Walling, 51, Manhattan socialite-businessman; she for the second time, he for the third; in Stamford, Conn...