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...Missouri wit missed the salient point about Lord Randolph's son. There is little indication that Churchill distinguished between his deeds and his words. Both were manly forms of action and both could, and usually did, cause trouble. Perhaps his father's early and humiliating death from syphilis made him fear that time would run out before his own destiny could be fulfilled. "How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!" he told Violet Asquith. But if Churchill saw death as an obstacle to ambition, his follow-up remark to the Prime...
...melodies to the contrary, and what you take often exceeds what you make. Love, nevertheless, had never been advanced as a social curative with such blithe musical seriousness until the Beatles' stoned rhapsodies of good will. The songs, composed with manifest, even urgent sincerity, and lanced with fugitive wit, not only caught the fantasies of a generation but got them airborne. Now there is no telling for certain which ended first, the dreams or the band. In any case, more than love was needed to sustain them all. That was the hardest lesson learned...
...wit, natire, had abot tilliness of British actor director Jonathan Miller yesterday delighted more than 70 people who heard him discuss his carrer as well as comment on America and the arts...
...events of our century," Freud's discovery of the unconscious, is presented much like a TV series, a splicing of Masterpiece Theater and The Roadrunner Hour. It features hordes of comic-strip Nazis goose-stepping into the life of the Freud family, the latter annoyingly over-endowed with satiric wit. Freud cuts a shabbily sympathetic figure, indulging his id with streams of forbidden cigars, lisping out lines like. "Is it my fault that I hit on it first? Did, anything prevent you from discovering psychoanalysis?", flaunting a preoccupation with incest, anality, and just about everything else the Viennese bourgeoisie lacked...
...Victoria and Albert Museum, observes that Fabergé's work "was almost the last expression of court art within the European tradition, which brings with it a passionate conviction of the importance of craftsmanship and inventiveness of design, aligned to a celebration of the virtues of wit and fantasy applied to everyday objects that still has a relevance to the design of today." -By Michael Demarest...