Word: cavil
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...only cavil concerns certain implausibilities in the plot. But Mr. Denning's exuberance is easily forgiven in light of the rebirth of this type of fiction...
Actually, one can cavil only in retrospect at de los Angeles' choice of music, for even an old concert-favorite like Scarlatti's Le Violette pleases us anew when clothed in such velvety beauty of sound as the Spanish soprano produced last Wednesday. Still more noteworthy--because less expected--was the increased command which de los Angeles seems recently to have developed over the realm of German lieder. Her exuberant performance of Schubert's Mein! made me forget for a moment that the songs from Die Schone Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner...
...that TIME found the Man of 1930: Mohandas Gandhi. In 193 2, TIME asked of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Will he make good in the White House? The country is only too ready to hope so." In 1934 it was F.D.R. again, "and only the narrowest partisan could cavil." Roosevelt in 1941 became the only three-time choice, though Winston Churchill in 1949 became the "man of the half-century...
...aren't supposed to want to get married. (And why should a transfer student and a girl from Brooklyn College who may well envy that hopeless middle class be quoted as authorities.) Boroff has taken what may have begun as a reasonable contention, and distorted it into an irrational cavil. The time is not yet upon us when marriage and the bearing of children are considered ignoble goals. Boroff himself admits that "Smith alumnae are impressively productive, alert, and far-flung...
Please do not think that I criticize or cavil...