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Liberals blasted Babbitt's disdain for the class struggle, conservatives his acerb attitude toward religious enthusiasm. Anglican Poet Eliot suggested that he was "trying to build a Catholic platform out of Protestant planks." He was a man perhaps defined only by his enemies. In the end, if he could not say himself precisely what he was trying to say, he did once quote a bit of doggerel that seemed...
...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...
...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...