William Gilbert Quotes
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
Gilbert, W. S. Quoted in Pearson, Hesketh. Gilbert: His Life and Strife. Methuen, 1957.
4th Earl of Chesterfield. A Bill was being debated to control theaters and plays. At the time in England, playwrights would commonly write dialogue ridiculing politicians of the day. Lord Chesterfield was opposed to the proposed censorship.
The Congress was debating President Johnson’s Voting Rights Bill. Southern Democrats and Conservative Republicans were opposed to legislation that would prevent states from discriminating against Black and other minority voters. Johnson needed the support of minority leader Dirksen and the moderate Republicans. Dirksen was at the White House discussing the strategy for the passage of the bill. This quotation illustrates the “partisanship of the day” where opponents were quite friendly even when they were “denouncing” each other, The venom and personal disrespect and hatred of the beginning of the 21st century was absent in the 1960s even though the most radical and controversial legislation was being debated. The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Non Discrimination in Housing and Medicare were all passed that year with filibusters and cloture votes. Yet there was always comity.
Germany, as one of the wealthier and solvent countries in the Eurozone, as a de facto matter, had to help bail out Ireland when they bailed out the Anglo Irish Bank. See {635440}. This bank was one of many throughout the Common Market and the United States that obtained taxpayer bailouts based on information that was not correct. Merkel observed similarities of banks in the different nations in terms of their honesty, greed, and lack of ethics.
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. The popularity of these works was supported for over a century by year-round performances of them, in Britain and abroad, by the repertory company that Gilbert, Sullivan and their producer Richard D'Oyly Carte founded, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. These Savoy operas are still frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond.
