Word: backhandedness
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Lily Pons fares no better: "The singing of a coloratura is a cross between cackle and a whistle, and performers on the vocal high wire and trapeze are utterly devoid of musical interest to me." O'Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with...
For Henry Wallace, Morgenthau reserved his sharpest shafts and, in a backhanded way, his greatest admiration. "Wallace's whole theory of spending in order to reduce agricultural production," Henry wrote in his diary, "always seemed nonsense to me." Once, Morgenthau complained to Wallace that it was costing $130 million...
What Was the Name? Leonard Lyons spent a nostalgic week among his souvenirs. Samples: Elisabeth Bergner had once read Lennie's horoscope; Iturbi had paid Lennie a backhanded compliment; Randy Churchill had paid him a small bet. People were always confusing Lennie Lyons with Eugene (Assignment in Utopia) Lyons...
But modern art owes a lot to Russia, and especially, in a backhanded way, to Lenin. In 1921 Lenin found time for a campaign-much like Hitler's later one-of "organized indignation" against modernists in Russia, which drove the incorrigibles from the country. In exile they contributed to...
Robert Burns got a backhanded tribute on the 150th anniversary of his death. In Manhattan the Rev. Charles S. Webster saw fit to say that the Scottish poet was not the irreligious tosspot he had been made out. Burns was really, said Pastor Webster, the Frank Sinatra of his day...