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Today Offenbach seems more the mockingbird. Even in his early works, disenchantment flickers at the edges of gaiety, and in Germany perhaps it seems the dignifying element of his work. Though Darmstadt re-creates his musiquettes with utter fidelity, the result is sometimes closer to strudel than soufflé. The orchestra plays impeccably, but without the elan that Paris gave to Offenbach, and he to it. Though every seat at every performance is filled with beaming burghers, the cancan line has not a single roguish wink for admiring males. Darmstadt is well pleased nonetheless. Landestheater Director Hering said last week...
...trying to buck others at their own game. For example, these were the first Olympics to have racing on a small sled which the French called a luge, the Germans a rodel and the English a toboggan, which it isn't. Ours was a pickup team of utter greenhorns. It would have been preposterous to expect them to beat racers who have been riding these things since infancy...
...These rules are making bastards of us all," Mrs. Useem declared. "They may have made sense in the past for some families, but they are utter nonsense for the survival of today's family unit--the family...
...creeping into his prose. Trotsky, Deutscher says, "strove to rally his fighters to the most impossible of causes. He sought to set them against every power in the world: against fascism, bourgeois democracy and pacifism; and against religion, mysticism and even secularist rationalism and pragmatism. He demanded unshakable conviction, utter indifference to public opinion, unflagging readiness for sacrifice and a burning faith in the proletarian revolution...
...been one of her admirers until faced with her utter nobility in circumstances where she could have been forgiven almost any weakness-even panic...