Word: warner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shuffling guards are ineptly led by Lance-Bombardier Terry Evans (David Warner), an insipid martinet who conceals his ambitions in a cloak of good intentions. He clings to cold-eyed discipline and survives solely on the hope that, if he avoids a mistake, the morning will finally bring his long-sought transfer to England for officers' training...
...quite knows her. Victorian writers characterized her as a religious zealot or an anxious nanny. In the post-analytical theater, Playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams toss her about like a sex bomb on a short fuse -guaranteed to explode somewhere in the second act. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Spinster and Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God show the bomb defused. Both novels capture the faded maiden in dignity and pathos. She is as obsolete as an antimacassar-and as real as the reader...
...from family-dominated companies, one-fifth of today's corporate presidents have been with their present firms for less than three years. Last year New England Mutual Life Insurance hired Abram T. Collier away from John Hancock as its new president. Gillette lost Stuart Hensley, now chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical. Wayne Hoffman quit New York Central and stepped aboard as chairman of Flying Tiger Line. This week David C. Scott, formerly executive vice president of Colt Industries, takes over as president of ailing Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing...
...STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Coined in its present context by Connecticut Newspaper Editor Charles Dudley Warner in 1850, when he wrote: "True it is that politics makes strange bedfellows." He stole it from Shakespeare's The Tempest (Act II, Scene 2), in which Trinculo, forced by a storm to seek refuge under a sheet with the abhorrent Caliban, says: "There is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows...
SONG CYCLE: VAN DYKE PARKS (Warner Bros.). Van Dyke Parks sings a surrealist's dream in a voice so innocent as to draw any listener into his experience. He has experimented with the usual recording technique by taping voice upon melody upon stereophonic sound effects, then mirroring it back at varying speeds until it becomes a collage of sound light-years away from a "live" performance. What does it matter if the lyrics are opaque at times? The effect is all shimmering beauty...