Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Humorist Frank Sullivan, lists of the "Greatest Books" are apt to sound phony and pedantic. Few people, he believes, would read Bacon's Novum Organum, for example, unless they had the latest Agatha Christie concealed inside. Last week Sullivan thought he had discovered a more honest list: the books niched so far this year by students at upstate New York's Union College...
Pounding his own stomach to stress the point, Tunney rummaged in his Shakespeare pocket for an apt quote. He found one-"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-but abandoned it with a nervous laugh in midline. The rest of the quote: ". . . he thinks too much. Such men are dangerous...
...music bad, or is it just not getting a hearing? Of 739 pieces sung or played in Manhattan's three biggest concert halls last year, only 45-less than 7% -were composed by Americans. Outside New York, artists and conductors were even less apt to be venturesome...
This report, a stern rebuke to the medical profession, was delivered last week by a committee of the New York Academy of Medicine. The survey covered only New York City. But other cities are apt to be worse; most dump alcoholics in jail...
Pinion's Rainbow (book by E. Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy; music & lyrics by Burton Lane and Mr. Harburg; produced by Lee Sabinson & William R. Katzell) is an apt title for a show where frequently rain is falling and the sun is shining at the same time. It is decidedly brighter than most musicals, and it might have been one of the brightest of them all; but its virtues can never quite shake themselves free of its faults...