Word: bastardized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MISS GRANBY'S SECRET OR THE BASTARD OF PINSK-Eleanor Farjeon-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Period improvisations about An Old Lady's Past: notably her youthful diary and her wild, Daisy-Ashfordish first novel, which is printed entire. Bit by bit the whole thing is deft, neatly flavored, entertaining. In bulk it is more of one good thing than the average digestion can take...
...clothesline for Sinclair's review is a strategically placed young man named Lanny Budd. Lanny is the bastard son of a U. S. munitioneer and of a Parisian artists' model. As his father's son he meets all the interesting people who Socialist Sinclair thinks are indispensable to history. From them Lanny picks up all the dirt...
...charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless. . . . The people loved him ... not because they were deceived in him, but because they understood him thoroughly; they said of him proudly: 'He's a slick little bastard.' " Next time they threw out Percy Sr. "Wai," said an old man, wet with tobacco juice and furtive-eyed, "the bottom rail's on top and it's gwiner stay thar." That was Percy's "first sight of the rise of the masses...
...Power character, Ben, is a big, hot-blooded, black-haired Bristol bastard whose story is as old and formal as legend : the proud but-for-base-birth heir-to-the-manor who a) vows vengeance against his humiliators, b) wanders and adventures far, c) returns rich, to deal with friends and foes according to their deserts...
...view of the controversy it has aroused, "Fantasia" is worthy of reappraisal. While some critics have out shouted the Hollywood press agents in praising it, others have termed it a "bastard hybrid of art and music, the unfortunate result of mating Leopold Stokowski and Minnie Mouse...