Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rubinstein made his official debut in Berlin at the age of eleven, playing Mozart's A-Major Concerto (K. 488). Critics cheered, but today he rarely plays Mozart. "He is the greatest of them all-so clear, so pure. Today I am too clever, too knowing, no longer simple...
Enter, Marx. In A Question of Upbringing, Author Powell created a narrator, Nicholas Jenkins, who went to a school suspiciously like his own (Eton), and at first blink the book might have been dismissed as just another clever young man's attempt to settle scores with his old school. But Powell, at 50, still writes of young men like a young man-one who has mercifully lived down his youth. Narrator Jenkins has a remarkably good ear, and records middle-and upper-class conversation with comic precision. And he is presented as a descendant of that Captain Jenkins about...
...last analysis, even Williams has to bow before the actress' talents. His screenplay is a clever job, and his curious probing into degeneracy is often quite interesting. But few will stop to be impressed with his work on the film. The Rose Tattoo is clearly Anna Magnani's picture...
...Mother's Son." In his exterior, Juscelino Kubitschek resembles his handsome father, João Oliveira, a gay, clever but improvident amateur poet, who died when Juscelino was two. Inside, he is far more like his prim, pious mother Júlia. Stern Widow Júlia reared the boy and his older sister Maria on a schoolteacher's salary. Harried and embittered by poverty, Júlia drilled into her son a fierce will to succeed. Now a hale-looking 83, she still calls him by his boyhood nickname...
...contrary, wrote one Charles Wadness in yesterday's Herald, the movie which gives an animated view of statistics on petting and extra-marital affairs, is "clever and amusing. and not in the least offensive." Wadness chided the Radcliffian for her lack of "a sense of humor--and an appreciation of reality...