Word: dreadfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dreadful Theory. Too many people, says La Farge, insist that such evidences of non-education are the price the nation must pay for a truly democratic school system. This "is a form of insistence that all be held down to a level, rather than . . . trying to raise all to a...
In Baltimore, Iconoclast H. L. Mencken, 73, startled an interviewer with some relatively kindly comments on things in general. As he puffed on a long cigar and sipped some Canadian ale, Mencken conceded that Dwight Eisenhower is not a bad President. A "better-than-average President," said Mencken, and doing...
Mary Cassatt's closest male friend was also her master, Edgar Degas. If she never equaled that dour misogynist as an artist, she came close enough to earn a place as the best woman painter America has produced. A rich, aristocratic Pennsylvanian, she spent almost all her adult life...
Chester catches sight of his destiny in adolescent flashes of intuition. Standing in a tent show before a penny-dreadful melodrama, he feels the actor's hypnotic hold on the crowd, senses that his words too may one day sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain...
In structure, the film has serious faults. It begins so slowly that for a while audiences can almost imagine that there is trouble with the projector. Even as the emotional rhythm catches hold, the mood is continually jolted by meaningless digressions. Nonetheless, there are several scenes which draw their moral...