Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incorrectly) have thought before him (to wit: 1. Nixon is an evil man. 2. Kennedy is ambitious, but not as evil as Nixon. 3. The President of the United States, alas, is a fool.). His well-known remark "Are there any minority groups I haven't offended?" is cute but deceptive, for he's careful only to offend the minority groups which one can get away with offending. His entire viewpoint resembles, in fact, that of a slightly eccentric but avid supporter of Adlai Stevenson. And it need hardly be remarked be that views of this sort have not been...
...Ewell Show (CBS) leads a relentless parade of situation comedies, all designed to show that American family life is as cute as a freckle on a five-year-old. The show, which might also be titled Father Knows Nothing, presents the comic with the excavated face as a bumbler named Potter who is trapped in the customary format: Harassed Man Beaten Down by Wife, Three Daughters, Mother-in-Law. In the opening episode, Ewell could find no better way to outsmart his spendthrift women than closing his bank account and ruining his own credit. For those who may have tuned...
...trying, as well, to be another ratings-wealthy Bachelor Father. Like all situation comedies, this one sets its sights low and aims for modest objectives, reaching them with a professionalism as smooth as glass, blown to enclose a vacuum. In the first episode, both MacMurray and his devastatingly cute ten-year-old son were chastely chased by women of appropriate ages...
...week the troupe unpacked La Fille Mai Gardée, one of history's first ballets (1789), which has been added to the repertory along with Ondine, Antigone and Le Baiser de la Fée (to be seen this week and next). Critics generally hailed the bucolicly cute La Fille though Choreographer Frederick Ashton's inventiveness scarcely sustained a full-length ballet...
...mild, a little ostentatiously benign, its warm iron-kettle juices mingling the flavor of sage and ham. At its best, an evening whose themes move from the cradle to the grave is both folkish and individual. Often it is less folkish than folksy, and at its worst it is cute enough to make J. M. Barrie seem austere. Nor do Corwin's comments help: instead of stressing the pungent and appealing in Sandburg, he hails him for leaving "obscurantism to the esthetes." But it may be that what Sandburg is leaving to the esthetes is poetry itself. Aside from...