Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First of all, you probably go about giving dull compliments, using words like good, yummy, fine, etc. Nothing is duller than a compliment like, "You're certainly very etc." Mr. Davis counsels...
...energy, the tradition-directed writer v. the self-made writer. The palefaces, e.g., Hawthorne, Melville, James, ruled the 19th century; the redskins, e.g., Dreiser, Anderson, Wolfe, Hemingway, Faulkner, rule the 20th. As the first great chief of the redskins, Whitman would take ironic relish in the latest paleface compliment paid him, a definitive biography by New York University English Professor Gay Wilson Allen-the biggest and probably the best of some 50-odd lives of Whitman in print...
...cocacolismo has borrowed freely from the U.S., it has also put new life into an old Latin American custom, the piropo, or street-corner compliment. "My compliments to your mother," the boys say. "If you want to kill me, I'll die." For a girl in a green dress, the proper piropo is "If you're like this green, what you'll be when you're ripe!" As for the phantasmagoric girl who is already ripe, the boys draw on their memories-of Italian movies, and say: "What a Pampanini...
...jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members of the "Manhattan Club" for tossing partners over their heads in "crazy boogie-woogie" dancing...
With Hajji Baba, Composer Tiomkin rises above all that. He has not written his score to fit the film; the film has apparently been written to fit his score. The compliment is a dubious one. Allegedly based on some 19th century picaresques about Persia by Author James Morier, Hajji Baba is all too obviously based on nothing but some old Bagdad sets that Producer Walter Wanger found around Hollywood. From there out it's silks of Ind. accents of Chi. on with the swarth and out with the nautch. A heavy navel bombardment in rich color is followed...