Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...
...trouble with the work of Terence Rattigan, one of Britain's leading playwrights since 1936, is that he frequently says what he thinks is clever instead of saying what he means. The method works fairly well in blazer farce and weekend melodrama, but when it comes to hearing the human heartbeat of a situation, Rattigan might as well be hunting uranium with an ear trumpet. Moreover, in The Deep Blue Sea, the leading lady does little to help. The part is scored, though crudely, for the full cello notes of womanly anguish; Vivien plays it in the thin pizzicato...
...game, Dartmouth made all its scores on clever running and tricky, well executed plays against the more inexperienced Crimson...
...curriculum is predicated on the theory that every individual has potentialities, which when encouraged and developed, spell success." Although this thought may sound a trifle well-worn at first glance, we notice the clever variation of tone within the sentence: the intellectual sound of "predicated" coupled with the homily of "spell success...
...some of them certainly are clever On the subject of "Home," for instance, there is the statement by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." A brilliant saying in the topic of "Economics" goes like this: "When we speak of bum steers in the stock market, we aren't talking about farming." This last saying certainly embodies" a great truth," just as Mr. Prochnow promised. Its author, incidentally, is Herbert V. Prochnow...