Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Neville's pallid Hamlet is very much in tune with the production--not a hair is out of place. Mr. Neville plays not passion and fury, but sweet, mild melancholy. Hamlet's brilliant sarcasm, which should flash like lightning to relieve his overcharged soul, pales into insignificance; the clouds that hang on the soul of this Hamlet are the merest, most forgettable wisps...
Nonetheless, this modest, seldom brilliant, sometimes even repulsively cute film version of the play, made in England by Anthony (The Browning Version) Asquith, is a pertly entertaining piece of photographed theater. With the bland commercial irreverence that Shaw admired in himself but loathed in his producers, Director Asquith has cast Shaw's pearls of wit among some of the biggest camera hogs in the business. Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones...
...wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away by the Edison General Electric Appliance Co. Edison was a subsidiary of General Electric, then under its third president, brilliant, public-minded Gerard Swope, who kept the company reins firmly in his own hands. Cordiner celebrated his new job by marrying his college sweetheart. Gwyneth Lewis...
...treatises on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Potter developed his brilliant theories about how to be always one up on everyone through such ploys as the Canterbury Block* and Cogg-Willoughby's Anti-Suntan Gambit.† Potter's latest does not reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what...
...major contribution of Potter's new handbook is the appearance of a bearded character known only as The Lawrenceman. It was never certain that he had ever actually read the works of D. H. Lawrence, but he had got hold of a few phrases and made brilliant use of them. There was, for instance, the occasion when a tweedy iconoclast named Cornelius Sticking loudly criticized a county family for putting on their best clothes to go to church on Sundays. The Lawrenceman merely looked out over his beard and asked mildly: "Is that a badness?" Sticking only managed...