Word: wands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from drama, are unfit for drama-can only poke around in the cupboard of memories and might-have-been. That, too, is the pathos of them. But it is a pathos that Chekhov sharply rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
...That you should have been able to preserve the art not only of creating armies almost at the stroke of a wand-but of leading and guiding these armies upon a scale incomparably greater than anything that was prepared for or even dreamed of, constitutes a gift made by the officer corps of the United States to their nation in time of trouble, which I earnestly hope will never be forgotten here...
...Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...
...outstanding figure in the show, however, is Corporal Ray Richardson, 23-year-old Chicagoan, who plays "Tom Wand"-a take-off of the opera's legit Don Jose. Richardson formerly sang with the Chicago Opera, which certainly doesn't hurt his renditions of I Love You, A Little on the Lonely Side and Sweet Dreams, Sweetheart...
California's Governor Earl Warren passed his magic wand over his political hat last week, and gave a lengthy spiel about what he would produce. But he surprised no one when he pulled out Joe Knowland's boy and named him U.S. Senator to succeed the late Hiram Johnson...