Word: comedownance
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...G.B.S.'s idea. "As you have done Shakespeare and Shaw," he told Biographer Hesketh Pearson, "are you not bound to do Dickens? Anybody but Dickens will be a comedown after Shakespeare and G.B.S." Pearson, who is Britain's most fecund literary biographer* and a Dickens fan to boot, heartily agreed; and although his Dickens reveals more about the man and his life than about the artist and his novels, it is nonetheless the best-balanced, most complete biography to date...
...baseball player who is accustomed to preparing for the season in sunny Florida, Briggs Cage must be quite a comedown. But one Stuffy McInnis has been carrying on admirably for three weeks now an his 1949 varsity team is gradually taking shape...
This is quite a comedown from a bare five months ago, however, when every major Republican candidate had at least some separate backing here, while the Democrats were split down the middle between Truman and Douglas. HLU jumped into the Democratic rift by backing Truman, but the Young Republican Club stayed aloof from any squabbling amongst their own members...
...Island and another on Fifth Avenue couldn't protect her from social wounds inflicted by snobbish non-Catholics. She picked up other facts of life: "shanty" Irish didn't rate with her own "lace-curtain" set; German Jews thought that marriage to a Russian Jew was a comedown...
...Artkino) is Part I of a three-part biography of Russia's first Czar (1530-84). It was written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the few men of genius who have made moving pictures. It is a great change and, many critics will feel, a great comedown from Eisenstein's early films, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old & New. Nonetheless it is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence...