Word: sullivanian
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Determined that Sullivan's name-dropping needlepoint should go on, Angell combed the year's headlines for worthy toastees, borrowed (like Sullivan) a few names from friends and wove them into Sullivanian tetrameter. Angell-a short-story writer, bestselling baseball author (The Summer Game) and stepson of E.B. White-aims good cheer at "Helmut Schmidt, Kenneth Tynan/ And the Rev. Rep. (D., Mass.) Robert Drinan, " and offers "A puppy each for Stacy Reach/ And Marvellous Nadia Comaneci." He exhorts: "Come, Willie Morris! Come, Maury Wills/ Make with the tonsils for Beverly Sills, "and wishes that "the new year...
...between Rosina and the Count by adding comedy lines, changed Dr. Bartolo from a typical Italian buffo character (quavering, senile old man with red putty nose) into a near likeness of Cinemactor Frank Morgan. Dr. Bartolo's first aria he changed from a scolding song into a Gilbert-&-Sullivanian self-analysis...
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