Word: disappointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subtlety, variety, vividness and control, Olivier's performance is one of the most beautiful ever put on film. Much of the time it seems a great one. But a few crucial passages will disappoint some people. There is hardly a line that he speaks, or a gesture he makes, which falls short of shining mastery, in the terms in which he conceives the role. But the conception is in some important ways limited. It is clear that Olivier has a laudable distaste for the pompous, the pansy and the pathological Princes who have so often dishonored the poem...
George Hanford's Yardling lacrosse squad didn't disappoint a one-man cheering squad that braved yesterday afternoon's downpour to attend the team's official debut played against Lawrence Academy of Groton, Mass. The Freshmen registered a neat 5 to 0 triumph...
...that Kay Boyle's novels so often disappoint? She has a glittering style that seizes the reader and carries him away at a nervous quickstep. But when the reader drops exhausted at the end, he is apt to feel more cheated than rewarded. Her tense characters are whipped by urgencies too violent for the problems they face; and as people, they don't stand a chance of survival between the same covers with Author Boyle's high-tension, consuming prose...
...class of 1951. You will find the campus cluttered with shacks, tenements, huts and barracks. Where the goober-hangers- are going to find a place I don't know [laughter]. Somehow we will make out. . . . The general level of education . . . must be raised if we are to disappoint the Kremlin with the vigor of our society. . . . You must work hard here, and you must think. That is probably harder work than you have ever done...
...cover of the new Radditudes is white--neutral. That may be symbolic of Spring or finals, but it also represents the quality of the printed material on the inside pages of the magazine. The stories will jar nobody, and disappoint only a few, for they are almost without exception more skillful and a lot less neurotic than the last crop, but there is little that rises above the higher stages of mediocrity...