Word: vy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem to vich all true philozophy must give an answer is ze question, 'Vat is ze meaning of Being as Zuch?' Or, in other vurds, 'Vy is there zomthing instead of nodthing...
...attraction. The score is second-rate Offenbach, first performed in 1868, well after the glories of La Belle Helens (1864) and Orpheus (1858); but it is still the work of a master in his field. The libretto is by two hacks of genius, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who vaguely based it (as they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper Mérimée.* As a pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps...
...HANDSOME Westchester matron, chic in a Hattie Carnegie dress and fragrant with Patou's Moment Suprême, passed TIME Editor James C. Keogh in New York's Grand Central Terminal, humming: "Da-vy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier!" In Beverly Hills, startled Furrier Al Teitelbaum told TIME Correspondent Ezra Goodman that a movie matron had handed him a mink stole and ordered it cut into "coonskin" caps for her two sons...
That night in Freedom Palace, Diem's revolutionary committee drew a pistol on Bao Dai's favorite general, Nguyen Van Vy. With a .45 at his stomach, Vy promised that the pro-Bao Dai units in the Vietnamese army would support Diem's government. Some of the excited young rebels wanted Vy shot on the spot, but Diem eventually let him go untroubled into the night...
...Just as George was looking for a place to start practice, a young lawyer in the little (pop. 2,200) county-seat town of Vienna (pronounced Vy-enna) decided to move on. George bought his practice and 5O-volume library for $300, hung out his shingle on a weather-beaten frame building just off Vienna's courthouse square...