Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show's pervasive fault is that, instead of offsetting sweetness with lightness, it turns sticky with sweetness and light. Though often attractive, the abbey scenes come off too pretty; though sometimes fetching, the children's scenes come off too cute. Even Mary Martin, however deft, comes off a little too lovable. The milk of human kindness is not enough for The Sound of Music. It insists on the syrup, till even the Nazis seem mere bad goblins in a fairy tale...
Anew book by Eric Hodgins, author of the Blandings novels, is an event. Doubly so when it is illustrated by the deft hand of Cartoonist Alan Dunn. This week Doubleday & Company brings out their combined work: Enough Time? The Pattern of Executive Life ($2.50), published in cooperation with TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. On this page...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Part II of Budd Schulberg's deft dissection of a Hollywood heel on the make. Color...
...striking Daliesque sets. Standouts of a superb cast were California-born Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis as a malevolent nurse and German Soprano Marianne Schech as the dyer's wife. Conductor Leopold Ludwig whipped his orchestra through the complex, luxuriant score with a fine sense of surging lyricism, a deft feel for the opera's shadow-flittery moods. "No matter what may happen to the Giants," glowed the Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein, "San Francisco won the pennant Friday night...
...Dragon only suggests the measure of Poet Moore's true worth. She is mostly having fun, and so will most readers who admire a deft use of language, a faultless grip on verse technique, an underlying love for living things, in such playful lines...