Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assistants push back the jungle of operatic ignorance a bit farther. When something old but new, e.g., next season's La Périchole (Offenbach), never before performed by the Met, comes up, the possibility of doing some spadework in virgin soil goes to her head "like wine...
...bush village of Bokouélé, the ancient Kani Eyobélé was dying, so he called his sons around him; the instructions he gave them were minute and terrifying. As soon as he died a calabash of palm wine was to be broken in the yard of his hut. Then in Eyobélé's open grave a white cockerel was to be beheaded and released. If the headless, fluttering bird flew out of the grave it was well: the dead man was on his way to the upper regions. But if the bird stayed...
Activities include such opportunities for the slipper-and-lounging-jacket set as a Wine Sippers' Society and a Cheese Tasters' Guild...
...these things function as advertised. Yet the existence of the Wine Sippers adds little to the lives of beer drinkers; claw--feet do little to reconcile a bath-tub to one desiring a shower; the dining hall, however much better than the rest, still must cook on a budget, which contributes some of the evils of the Central Kitchen; the high-powered brains are of little general utility; the English collection's excellence is of little use to science concentrators, the washing machines are insignificant if one wants clothes ironed...
...that of Ireland which "should replace the sickly-looking tricolor of green, white and yellow" with "the old flag, a lovely one, of the green field with the harp in its center." In "The Power of Laughter: Weapon Against Evil," O'Casey voices his deepest conviction: "Laughter is wine for the soul . . . Once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living ... It is odd how many seem to be curiously envious of laughter, never of grief . . . The saying is all wrong-it should be 'Grieve...