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...stand looks like a portable museum of musical instru ments. Dangling from his neck is a manzello, a quasi saxophone that forgot to grow up, and a stritch, which resembles a dented blunderbuss and hangs well below his knees. The third instrument is more familiar; it is a tenor sax, and stuffed into its bell is a flute. The musician rocks back and forth on his feet as if uncertain how to begin. Then he makes his decision. He puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like...
...ecumenical revolution that is starting to knit together the scattered divisions of Protestantism and Orthodoxy. A generation ago, Protestants were "heretics" to Catholics, and Orthodox churchmen "schismatics";* in Catholic circles now, the U term for non-Catholics is "separated brethren." In 1954, Chicago's late Samuel Cardinal Stritch forbade his priests to attend the World Council of Churches Assembly at Evanston; last November, five Catholic priests were sent by the Vatican to New Delhi as official observers. Under the skilled diplomatic direction of Augustin Cardinal Bea. Rome's new Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity solicited Protestant suggestions...
...sound a little weary here, and his wit is Princeton Tiger '24 ("If you want to play strip poke /With the girls in cabin B/ Come to me, dear boys, come to me." But in a couple of songs (Where Shall I Find Him?, Later than Spring) Elaine Stritch whoops it up as if she were really riding a winner...
Still, at times, a gallant Broadway cast has a ball among the mothballs. In the role of Mimi Paragon, social director of the S.S. Coronia, Star Elaine Stritch performs comic labors in herding a party of U.S. hicks, stuffy Britons, lushes, lady authors, child horrors and pet dogs (including one named Adlai) through a Mediterranean cruise with stops at Tangiers, Naples and the Parthenon...
Comedienne Stritch punches out her lines with the raucous authority of a pneumatic drill, and in a number called Why Do the Wrong People Travel? she is a song blaster in the megaton range. Choreographer Joe Layton paces the show with wryly inventive dance sequences, notably a goofily spastic Beatnik Love Affair. An Italian wedding party that turns into a tourist trap is a hilarious cross-cultural spoof. But the S.S. Coronia is really a ship of the desert, and it is a long dry haul between oases...