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...namely the Catholic bitterness at unbelieving Jews like Freud, Marx, and Einstein, who have fashioned so much of the modern world. His challenge to this alienated Catholic is eloquent: "After almost six thousand years of history the Jew finds himself alone in a frightening universe with nothing but his wit, his love and his courage. Is it possible for the Catholic to want join us in trying to live on these terms...
Nothing was so amusing to French Composer Francis Poulenc as hearing his friends marvel at the quilt of contradictions that masked his music and his life. "I am half-monk, half-bounder," he would say, and his friends would add that he was also a cultured vulgarian, a moody wit, a seedy dandy-a puzzle. He wrote flippant music and sacred music, funny, jazzy profane music, and he also wrote some of the century's greatest songs. Since his death in Paris last January, the Poulenc puzzle has become his epitaph-as though his critics and colleagues would rather...
Mary Perkins possesses a sizeable quantity of the more endearing feminine virtues. In particular, she is a woman of wit: her candor and sense of humor are well known, and tales about her frequently zany remarks are freely exchanged by her admirers. Her frankness, if sometimes embarrassing to her husband, has always made her conversation enjoyable and worth remembering...
...been a very dull show. The music, while rousing, is not memorable, and although some of the lines are catchy, only careful control of facial expression, action and pacing will make them produce laughter. But the Winthrop House production of this musical is a wonderful show, filled with life, wit, and fun. Director Lewis Kaden, with the help of several fine actors, has exploited every opportunity for humor and warmth...
Delighting his Harvard audience with his wit and fielding their questions with diplomatic elusiveness, French Ambassador to the U.S. Herve Alphand last night reiterated France's desire to have "an autonomous nuclear force...