Word: wren
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...such leg-pulling, the star is blithely oblivious. "Most people," she says, "expect Helen Gurley Brown to be fierce and fiery. They're surprised to find me a nice old brown wren...
...idea was first formally introduced in a book in 1608. Ninety years later, having mulled it over, Sir Christopher Wren guessed he was for it. In 1854, Gladstone said: "I cannot doubt it would be of immense advantage," but he decided not to make undue haste. In following decades came a select parliamentary committee, a royal commission, a Paris conference, three colonial conferences, and most recently a special committee of inquiry, all primarily devoted to the subject. Last week, after 358 years of careful thought, the British government formally announced its intention to decimalize the pound. Instead of consisting...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: CHRONOCHROMIE FOR ORCHESTRA (Angel). One of France's leading composers, declaring that "nature is the supreme resource," has based a weird, episodic, 22-minute piece on the sounds of wind and water and the songs of birds (the xylophone plays the nuthatch, the glockenspiel the wren). At one point the instrumental stand-ins for 18 birds, from nightingale to chiffchaff, perform a complex medley. Yet Chronochromie is no mere imitation of nature, and in fact stands at the opposite pole-being a highly cerebral exercise concerned, as its title indicates, with the "color of time." Played...
...London Hilton and the 620-ft. London post office tower. Westminster Abbey's statues and memorial have been newly cleaned and painted, and the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is undergoing a $420,000 polishing that will return it to the splendor envisioned by Sir Christopher Wren-and, hopefully, keep it that way, since electric-shock pigeon deterrents are being added. London Bridge is falling down, and plans have been drawn for a $6,700,000 replacement...
...citizenship granted him in 1963. It was also symbolic of his lifetime dream of a closer union between the two nations whose blood flowed in his veins. The martial thunder of the old abolitionist hymn, with its stern New England pieties, may at first have sounded startling in Christopher Wren's graceful English Renaissance church, but it was one with the Churchillian spirit-militant, sonorous, confident of being in the right. The church that symbolized the survival of the British nation and the hymn that symbolized the endurance of the American Union-the suddenly mingled echoes of Agincourt...