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Roughly Speaking (Warners) should not disappoint admirers of Louise Randall Pierson's brisk, brash autobiography of a rampant housewife (TIME, June 28, 1943), and will probably amuse plenty of others. Dashing through some 40 years, it does comically for the U.S. middle class much of what A Tree Grows in Brooklyn does more seriously for the not-quite-working class...
...small towns] you simply must conform ... or live like a hermit and disappoint your husband and his people...
...which the President had read aloud the day before were still there. But peppered among them now were other words, phrases, sentences, bitter, taunting, contemptuous words which stung the majority leader like slaps in the face: "unwise," "inept," "indefensible special privileges to favored groups," "dangerous precedents for the future," "disappoint and fail the American taxpayers." Taxpayers' confusion, asserted the President, was not the Treasury's fault but "squarely the fault of the Congress of the United States...
...oratorio. Both methods have been tried, the former at Mczieres in 1921, and the latter in Rome five years later. There were passages in it, as heard last night, which may have sounded somewhat strange, or out of place; but all in all, the combined groups did not disappoint the many people who have waited so long to hear it performed, and proved that it is as effective a piece of choral writing as it is an instrumental work...
...Dead Body," if nothing else, makes the first film better appreciated. Milton Berle, acting the mental eagle (two below par), works his way into court as the defendant in a first degree murder charge. By stepping out of character at the last moment, he manages to save himself and disappoint an audience well content to see him "burn...