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More cautious and staid in its praise, but still loaded with adjectives, was the New York Times. Allison Danzig dubbed the Crimson as "one of the cleverest, fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since Percy Haughton...

Author: By John Shortlidge, | Title: Press Goes Overboard On Crimson | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

...Nothing like these black and crimson clad heroes has been seen since the dear dead days that seemed beyond recall for Harvard through years of mediocrity ... (this is) one of the cleverest fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since the days of Percy Haughton...

Author: By Chuck Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Annette had not many years to live. Both lived until 1929, long enough to see their elder son become one of England's top social planners. Annette Beveridge was 86 when she died, nearly stone-deaf at the last and vigorously translating Turkish biography. "Perhaps the cleverest lady and the wickedest in her opinions that I have ever met," said Bernard Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlighted Places | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...cleverest thing I ever did," said the White Knight, "was inventing a new pudding during the meat course . . . [But] I don't believe that pudding ever will be cooked. And yet it was a very clever pudding to invent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Carrots & Fire Tongs | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Clever, opium-puffing Producer Cocteau (his fans call him "the cleverest man alive") has allowed his pipe dreams only a soupcon of surrealist-Freudian flavor. The surreal touch is applied to several scenes with absolute poetic Tightness: by retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release. There is also plenty of surreal wit: the Beast's eyes, ears, nose and fingernails fume when the fires of lust blaze up in him; and Beauty's tears turn to diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good & French | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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