Word: disappoints
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...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...
...Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Majority Leader Wallace White, Speaker Joe Martin, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...
...rather than disappoint his readers, Author Cain does some thimblerigging with family birthmarks, and soon fixes things so that Kady is not Jess's daughter after all, and they may step out together hand in hand to enjoy more commonplace sins of Cain, such as adultery, bigamy, perjury, moonshining, arson, mayhem and murder. "She was anybody's woman," mutters Jess gloomily-after he has neatly exploded Kady's real father with a large charge of dynamite, and she has run away with a more tolerant sort...