Word: surfeiting
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...began composing his own plays, each one brimful of parts. "Twenty years he persisted in that controlled hallucination, but one morning he was overcome by the surfeit and the horror of being so many kings who die by the sword and so many unhappy lovers who converge, diverge, and melodiously agonize. The story goes that, before or after he died, he found himself before God and he said: 'I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man: myself.' The voice of God replied: 'Neither am I one self; I dreamed the world...
...play for incomes that average only $4,500 a year. All have plenty of work: by the end of the concert season next month, Festival Hall will have held 190 orchestral concerts in nine months, leading the orchestras to wonder if they aren't suffering from a surfeit of their own music making...
...pesky organ that regulates their lives. When a Frenchman exclaims, "Mon foie!", his cry from the gland wins instant sympathy, even in a Place de la Concorde traffic jam. Depending on whether it is swollen, too hard, too tender, congested, enrheumed or, as the French say, "intoxicated" from a surfeit of rich food, the liver is blamed for virtually every physical malfunction from ingrown toenails to inadequate amatory performance...
Among the surfeit of phonograph records that were put on the market last year, a few merit special attention. An even smaller number seem especially appropriate as Christmas gifts of music. A selective list of the year's best: Beethoven...
...Young couples were laced together under the trees of the Bois de Boulogne, locked lip-to-lip on the Metro stairs, snuggled flank-to-flank on the swimming barges moored along the Seine. To the Gaullists in the National Assembly there was only one thing wrong with this surfeit of love: it is not producing enough babies. Introducing new legislation designed to change that situation, ex-Premier Michel Debre warned: "There is a direct and immediate link between the weight of our population and our future in Europe and the world...