Word: tatting
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...vernacular and even outhouse touches, his is an artificial and sophisticated style, a succinct loquacity. At bottom, Godot is both a neatly fingered exercise in wit and a pointillist rendering of humanity's dark-forest moods. But its very neatness gives it rather a symbolic rat-tat-rat than something that reverberantly makes great gashes and rents. Beckett's method dispenses with the usual stage clothing, but hardly to get closer to nakedness, for nakedness implies flesh, and Godot very often seems ghostly. The best symbolic works, from Moby Dick or Don Quixote down, never wear their symbolism...
Died. John Emerson, 8.1, oldtime stage actor (Tit for Tat in 1904), playwright and movie pioneer, husband of Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos; after long illness; in Pasadena. Calif...
...came back as a staff officer. After taking part in the campaign against Turkey, he was bounced from the army for joining a plot to restore the monarchy under George II, Constantine's son. But in 1935 he took a leading part in a coup d'état which got George II back his crown by means of a fake plebiscite. Said Papagos: "The only unethical act of my career." Years later he had to lecture one of George II's successors on the limitations of the royal prerogative: "Sir," complained haughty young Frederika, wife of King...
...Yellow Rose of Texas (Mitch Miller orchestra and chorus; Columbia). With a rat-a-tat-tat of snare drums and a fifelike tweedle, the Texan (presumably) chorus chants about the girl back home. The tune, which comes from the Civil War, is so appealing that it has risen to No. 3 bestseller in a few weeks. Perhaps march tempos will replace the rock-'n-roll fashion...
...Conseil d'État will unhesitatingly interpret a law newly passed by the National Assembly in the light of decrees or regulations issued by Francis I or Louis XIII, and use the final and authoritative construction thus put upon it to pour back the new wine into the old bottles of an archaic jurisprudence. Before the last war the Cour des Comptes still used the same antiquated accounting system, the same quill pens, and the same bewildering piles of ledgers that were used in the Chambre des Comptes of the last Capetians [circa 1300]." The typewriter and the calculating...