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...businessman and created Marquise de Pompadour by her royal lover, arrived in the "rats' nests" in 1745, stayed at the court 20 years until her death at 42. Her figure seemed to be made wholly of nymphish curves: her skin was "snow-white," her eyes "the brightest, wittiest and most sparkling." She could act dance and sing, play the clavichord "to perfection," paint, draw, engrave precious stones, and spout about gardening, botany and natural history-"a more accomplished woman," says Author Mitford, "has seldom lived." The only interesting thing about her childhood comes from an account book, where...
...concluding selection, Beethoven's Septet in E-Flat, represents its creator in his wittiest and most lyrical vein. While retaining features of the older divertimento (especially in the prominent violin part), it also looks forward to the work of later composers--Mendelssohn must have known the scherzo well. Despite a few lapses in intonation, the performers gave all the energy and sparkle the septet demands, and it brought an appropriately enthusiastic response from the audience...
...brace the plot, Bella and Sam Spewak, Shakespeare's collaborators on the book, provide two mobsters to luck backstage during the performance. Before they return to gangland, the thugs have stolen Porter's wittiest song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Advice on love couched in the titles of Shakespeare's plays, the lyrics are studded with lines like "If she says your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus...
...portrait of Felix is surely one of the subtlest, wittiest and kindliest of a civil servant in a long time, and the story of his reluctant, harassed but courageous progress through the murderous fiddle-de-dee of the year 406 is told without a word out of place. As an extra dividend, the book is clearly intended for reading as an oblique comment on the British character, and especially on the modern British bureaucracy. Author Duggan seems to suggest that, given a bowler and bumbershoot to go with his tidy, official face, Felix might patter along Downing Street without winning...
...Bible and mythology are not the only things readers are ignorant about: they also know too little history and thus lose much of the meaning of what they might read. "Take," says Trevelyan, "two of the wittiest lines Pope ever wrote...