Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife all the intimate details of their last 24 hours together. It is dreadfully sincere-and dreadfully embarrassing. By writing the story in the first person singular, Monsarrat deprives himself of whatever ironic distance he might otherwise have been able to establish and identifies himself with all the coy, callow and cuddly sentimentalities with which his hero's letter drips. Leave Cancelled leaves the uncomfortable feeling that someone's privacy has been violated...
...Appointed Wayne Coy, Washington radioman and onetime assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, succeeding Charles R. Denny, resigned; and upped George E. Sterling, FCC's chief engineer, to be a commissioner, succeeding Ewell K. Jett, resigned...
...more baroque appeal-one scarcely, however, so recognizably Venetian, American, or, to name the spade, anything. Briefly, the movie niece (Susan Hayward) is young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders...
...season began, tricky Michigan and powerhouse Notre Dame (which has still to play its first game) looked like the teams to watch in 1947. Notre Dame had its veteran quarterback, Johnny Lujack, and a Texas-born Irishman, Coy McGee; Michigan had Bob Chappuis (rhymes with happy us), who is the best passer, says cautious Coach Crisler, he has seen in 16 years...
...Pipit, are not quite equal to their idea; and Mr. Miles, who is too young to play the colonel, is not quite up to his role. Now & then the picture, probably the most intensely insular movie the British have yet exported to the U.S., becomes too clumsy or too coy; from beginning to end it is as genteel as rectory crumpets. And though none of the classical Village Types is revealed on the level of high comedy, the picture has considerable charm and humor...