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...first postwar generation continued to converse in Latin, to eat their breakfast of dinner leftovers (olla podrida, alias slum), to debate such questions as: "What is the reason that though all rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not increase?" By the turn of the century, Noah Webster, '78, had moved into a house up the street to begin his dictionary, and Eli Whitney, '92, was beginning his career as inventor and one of the great forces in the Industrial Revolution...
...person of little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit."-Webster...
Maciver styles himself a sciolist (Webster: "One whose knowledge is superficial") and says he "has no craving for any other distinguishing appellation...
...During the 22-week season there will also be brand-new productions of Aïda (directed by Margaret Webster), Rigoletto and Carmen. The Met will mount 21 operas...
...first leave in 1935, he wrote White Wings (based on the play by Philip Barry); he managed the musical score for Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster in a summer only because it was short and could be dashed off in a few months. On his second sabbatical, in 1942, he picked a libretto that "wouldn't work" and "missed the boat." He wrote a Quintet and some songs instead. Last week audiences in Columbia's Brander Matthews Hall saw and heard what good, grey Douglas Moore, 57, had cooked up on his third...