Word: waltzed
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...world go round in Arthur Schnitzler's satire on love-making in 19th century Vienna. His ten "dialogues" on a common theme have been given probably as many varying interpretations as productions--from the ironic bitterness of the New York Circle Theater's presentation last year to the delicate waltz-like charm of the movie version. Theatergoers expecting one or the other will be either shocked or delightfully surprised, according to their appetites, at the less complicated rollicking sybaritics of the Actors Company production...
...invader. But beyond learning her official duties and finishing her education, her chief worry during the next years will be to find a suitable consort. At a ball last fall, the royal court thought for a moment that she might have found one when she insisted on dancing every waltz with a handsome teen-aged count. Unhappily, the waltzing gave the dashing count a most undashing nosebleed, and by the time he finished out the evening with his nostrils stuffed with cotton, his brief career as Daisy's No. 1 romantic possibility was over...
...found some of its earliest modern representatives in the German romantic philosophers, who sought to preserve the validity of various dogmas by taking them symbolically--seeing them as poetic anticipations of their own profound ontological discoveries. Thus Hegel explained the Trinity as a figurative approximation to his everlasting metaphysical waltz-step of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, and Professor Tillich finds the doctrine of the Incarnation still viable because it expresses "the principle of the divine self-manifestation in the ground of being itself ... the dynamic spiritual word which mediates between the silent mystery of the abyss of being and the fulness...
...match the dreamlike quality of the Indonesian civil war. in which battles often seem more like ballets, Indonesia's diplomacy last week went into a hesitation waltz...
...solemn face frozen in bewilderment, the zany Dane had a fine time telling about his 2½ brothers (three half brothers, one regular brother) and bumbling through a Chopin waltz that was later rippled off by a stagehand wearing gloves...