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...Angry Men. The play, by Reginald Rose, started out with an old idea (what happens in a jury room) but turned it into a crisp and exciting melodrama. Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind. Among the others, Walter Abel, Edward Arnold, John Beal and Paul Hartman played interesting variations on the theme of guilt or innocence...
...also arise when it dawns on a listener that you couldn't possibly have had all the fabulous adventures you've been making up without being utterly fluent in some European tongue. When he confounds you with a sudden French or Italian phrase and demands an accounting for the bland expression on your face, your play is this. "Why, I never had to learn any French. My mist . . . uh . . . a girl did all my interpreting." Needless to say, a discrete look around and a man-to-man tone of voice will enhance the effectiveness of this ploy. If your tormentor...
...Clem Attlee as gullible as he seems? It is hard to tell from his curious, deadpan way of writing and speaking. His sentences frequently end on a tentative note, as if the point will come in the next paragraph. He can be bafflingly bland. Sample (from his autobiographical account of his first trip to Moscow in 1936): "Unfortunately, my visit preceded by a few weeks the big purges, which removed a number of [the leading men] I had contacted, notably Marshal Tukhachevski." Attlee could walk with Dante through hell and emerge remarking that "different people had different tastes...
...Meet the Press, A.F.L. President George Meany exposed a bland and impervious hide to four eager newsmen. Even as determined and tenacious a questioner as Lawrence Spivak was unable to make any headway, and when the New York Times's Stanley Levy suggested that Meany had worked with Governor Thomas E. Dewey to enforce the licensing of stevedores on Manhattan's odorous docks, Meany snapped: "I guess you don't read your own newspapers. I publicly opposed licensing...
...Homer opposite are public favorites respectively at the Fort Worth Art Center and the Butler Art Institute (in Youngstown, Ohio). These are not subtle or even vastly skilled pictures, and they hardly relate to European traditions. Eakins' gawky and youths are a far cry figure from the bland, beautiful athletes of classical sculpture and Renaissance figure painting. Homer's schoolboys-like real ones-are more energetic than graceful...