Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does himself. Unlike Fred Allen (who overmodestly says Goodman Ace is America's greatest wit), Goodman Ace burns no midnight oil, drips no sweat. He usually tosses off a script in an hour and a half. His cigars give him a convenient yardstick: a one-cigar script is apt to be terrific, a two-or three-cigar script fair, a four-cigar script a stinkaroo. Rehearsals are similarly carefree. A light once-over usually suffices. Anything more than that, Goodman Ace insists, kills the spark of spontaneity...
...somewhat platitudinous manner (his favorite clichés are "let's walk around that idea" and "facts-not opinions") is apt to mislead strangers about the kind of businessman 54-year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan with the cold-blooded notion that he would avoid settling on any one career until he was 35. Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making...
...hours ever day, passers-by in Boylston Hall are apt to hear an enormous quantity of dots and-dashes streaming out of a room on the top floor. What they hear isn't the last remnants of a frustrated Pall-Mail advertisement, but rather the results of an interesting and constructive project being carried out by the Psychology Department...
Periodicals dealing with subjects as ephemeral as "planning the post-war world" are apt to find themselves becalmed in the doldrums of utopian yearnings. "Threshold" has skillfully stayed afloat and on its course without jettisoning its credo...
...some laughs out of the show. Your Mother will like parts of it even better, especially the Gay Nineties songs. But between laughs you're apt to get awfully bored wondering why and how twenty people on the stage can have so much fun while a couple of hundred in the audience are away in a corner with Morpheus. Margie Hart might have done some good, but not enough...