Word: disappointment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of these analogies are so much more obvious than brilliant that they will disappoint readers accustomed to the fire works of other Haldane writings. Whether or not a conversion to Marxism involves paralysis of the sense of humor, the au thor apparently decided that he could make the best impression with this book by assuming an air of grave reasonable ness. Despite this effort, many readers will find it less a proof of the scientific validity of Marxism than a collection of opinions on science and Marxism by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane...
Upshot of the meeting will interest Goodman fans but disappoint chamber-music connoisseurs. Able Clarinettist Goodman plays his notes precisely, but sounds like a little boy with a very stiff collar singing in church for the first time...
...that they disagreed violently with everything he said, particularly when he mentioned "Christian myths." Publication of Father Noel's Life of Jesus*, over which he labored for 30 years and which has left him blind, should clear up the matter of his views. But the lengthy volume may disappoint some religious radicals. Its interpretation of Jesus' life is unexpectedly mild, unexpectedly orthodox on miracles and other matters which do not impinge on social revolution. Of Feeding the Five Thousand, Father Noel says, "Is it too fanciful to suggest that ... we have a picture of an ordered society...
...Bound to disappoint the admirers of Gypsy Rose Lee, whose sultry gifts are confined to such lines as "I'll cut your heart out and stuff it like an olive," You Can't Have Everything should satisfy almost everyone else. It gives the clowning Ritz Brothers the opportunity to extract the last zany twist from such sequences as playing a swing version of chopsticks, dressing as charwomen to break into the Y. W. C. A. To adept Song Pluggers Alice Faye and Tony Martin, Mack Gordon & Harry Revel have supplied a tiptop score of which the most singable...
Since this was printed, eight long years have passed. Trotsky has lived here and there in Europe, always kindling the flame of "Trotskyism" which is after all Communism. Today Trotsky is in Mexico- the ideal country for an assassination- and Stalin continues to disappoint the many Stalinists who continue to clamor for his extermination-but why should Stalin have Trotsky done away with...