Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring" Again (by Isabel Leighton & Bertram Bloch; produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) becomes a funny comedy about an hour and a half after the curtain rises. Until then it pants and puffs, nervously broad-jumping from joke to joke and depending for interest on the deft performance of Comedienne Grace George (The Circle, Kind Lady). When, at the end of Act II, it suddenly bolts forward like a race horse that has been given the whip, it's a little too late for it to be in the money...
...picked up at the factory by pilots of the Army's Ferrying Command for delivery to Air Forces commands or to the British. But the boats are delivered by Consolidated's own Flight Operations. Flying boss of F.O. is a huge-boned, broad-faced airman named Russ Rogers, who in 1939 was flying a PBY (the Cuba) for Standard Oil Heir Richard Archbold in New Guinea when Rube Fleet decided to set up his own delivery service. Frank Learman, traffic manager of the new F.O., got him on the radio telephone, told him he was wanted...
...Adjustment," as Salmen and his staff define it, is a broad term. At this particular time of year, it usually refers to students who have had poor preparation. Some haven't had a complete enough background in algebra to hold them above water in Physics C others have too scanty a knowledge of French to carry them through the first weeks of French E. Such cases can usually be bandled in an average of under four hours...
...Land Is Bright is not wrecked by its broad laughs, its even broader satire, its jumble of incident, its rush of events. There was no need to treat the theme solemnly. But there was no need to take all the guts and sinew out of it, to make every character an exaggeration, every action a stencil, every speech a cliché-and then bathe the entire scene in a lurid purple light. But all these faults don't make it dull. It has as much kick as a decanter of bad whiskey...
Though Pierre Mercadier is the central figure of this book, the broad current of Aragon's story flows over and around him through four generations, with the steady popping of political and social disturbances in the background. Coincidence and the bedroom are in constant use. Aragon has a flair for the ironic or cruel anticlimax, for impaling passing figures on needle-pointed paragraphs...