Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Briggs did not think that the March could be used as a football song because of the lyrics. He conceded that the words "had a little bit of Tom Lehrer in them," and might possibly be used by other Ivy League bands to serenade Harvard...
...Webb, who at times is wildly hilarious in a deadpan style as a mysterious and omniscient figure who takes a job as children's companion and domestic aide in order to get background for a lampooning novel about suburbia. He has several classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl on the youngster's head. Maureen O'Hara and Robert Young perform adequately as the harassed couple in typical domestic comedy fashion with soap-opera naivete. The script is often forced and depends on such cliches as prying...
...auto industry accepted that theory. The plain fact was that G.M.'s conservatively styled new models had not caught the fancy of the public as the more radical styling of Ford and Chrysler had. For this reason, automen thought that G.M. was probably gearing its production a bit closer to sales than either Ford or Chrysler. On the other hand, Ford's and Chrysler's models were selling so well that both were stepping up production to build up dealers' supplies for the spring upsurge they confidently foresee. On its part, G.M., while restoring some cutbacks...
...contrast to the rather pale followers who inevitably surrounded him made his polished performance slightly too heavy for the play, although he succeeded completely in any comic passages. Mij Gohr, playing his wife, was sensitive and graceful, giving a quiet impression of sensitive acting; she was also, however, a bit frozen. As Sonia, Charlotte Clark looked believable, but stood rather rigidly, often in awkward closeness to others on stage. Her face occasionally wandered far out of her role, and she was only at moments able to bring the partial vitality, youth, and hope of Sonia onto the stage. Marc Brugnoni...
...ghoulish affair is inhabited by some appropriately unpleasant characters. The above mentioned hero, Pat Muldoon, is an impecunious Irish immigrant and tree surgeon whose sin consists of selling the last remaining bit of family property--perhaps symbolically, a back alley--and spending the money on a spree. Mr. Barton's performance in the role is a little incoherent, a fact which may be excused on the grounds that the cute little Irishisms and maunderings about the homeland which he is called upon to utter must have proved thoroughly repulsive to an actor of his stature and experience...