Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics and visiting celebrities who thought their prestige entitled them to private viewings got rude refusals or no answer at all. Socialite neighbors who asked to come and bring their weekend guests got the blunt advice: "Take your guests to the movies." Some of Barnes's curter notes were signed with the name Fidéle de Port Manech, his mongrel bitch. The general public crusty old Connoisseur Barnes dismissed as untutored "diversion seekers," just as objectionable when they gushed approval as when they expressed stubborn distaste...
Among the last of King Abdullah's official visitors last week was a stocky, cigar-smoking man with a tarboosh tilted jauntily over a blunt, puckish face. He was Riad Bey el Solh, 57, one of the Middle East's shrewdest politicians and Lebanon's first premier when the little country became independent...
...series of blunt sessions with the State Department, Symington stuck to one principle: if the State Department wanted to bolster the Bolivian economy, it should get a foreign aid appropriation from Congress. It had no right to expect him to exact an artificial subsidy from U.S. consumers...
...cross William Hogarth had to bear was that he simply did not impress his contemporaries as a serious painter. His colors were too fresh, his draftsmanship too free & easy, his characterizations too blunt and unflattering. When he held auctions of his oils in 1745 and 1751, the paintings he liked best were laughed at. Even the oil originals of some of his most popular engravings sold for little more than the price of their frames. Finally, in disgust and despair, he took down the shingle of his trade from his London house and retired to the country. He wrote...
...Elliot) & Ray (Goulding) (Mon.-Fri. 5:45 p.m., NBC) are two comics from Boston's WHDH, relaxed but not tired in the TV manner, who moved into New York to give blunt, deadpan satires on soap opera, commercials (man-eating mulberry bushes) and "our contemporary way of life," all backed by hysterical organ music. Their spoofing and imitations are pleasantly homemade, but done at a professional pace...