Word: contrivedness
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Beef & Beer. Elgar became Master of the King's Musick. He fitted the public picture of clubman and country squire, complimented himself that he neither looked nor dressed like an artist. It was this pompous Elgar who turned out the first Pomp and Circumstance march (its trio is also...
Widely popular when it was originally released in 1948, Sitting Pretty seems only mildly amusing and highly contrived in 1957.
Nobody is more surprised by their success than Patience and Prudence themselves. ("People say that our names are obviously contrived, but that's what Mamma named us.") The girls never had a singing lesson; their voices are rather shaky, and even Daddy never gave them a second listen until...
¶ A 45-minute operatic treatment of Honoré de Balzac's spine-tingler La Grande Bretêche, with music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the...
This is less a book than a Christmas card. With the help of some singularly uninspiring illustrations, the publishers have contrived to stretch the American edition of T. S. Eliot's first poem since Four Quartets-all of 34 lines long-into a book of ten pages. Eliot at...