Word: acerb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only non-German composer was Harvard's own Walter Piston, with his early, acerb Chromatic Study on BACH, and his more recent and highly important Prelude and Allegro. In this and the Mozart, Mrs. Pardue was assisted by a string orchestra of Summer School students, conducted by G. Wallace Wood worth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
...role not too far removed from his own Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners. He posed and postured as man of affairs, thinker, dude and cocksure authority on everything from high finance to socialism. As his embattled mother-in-law, Hollywood's Thelma (Rear Window) Ritter had a fine, acerb time of it sticking pins in the balloons of his pretensions. Unfortunately, Director Sidney Lumet and Adaptor Ronald Alexander chose to dwell on the resemblances between The Show-Off and The Honeymooners instead of the differences...
Groucho's ambition is to keep You Bet Your Life neatly balanced between human interest and acerb comment. "I like it when George Kaufman or Moss Hart tell me the show is funny," he says, "but I like it better when it appeals to the mass audience. Now we've got Moss Hart and the yahoos...