Word: dullish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Kronenberger has a nice way of seeing his subjects both as men and as writers, and, when the shoe fits (as in the case of Gibbon), as dullish people redeemed by works of genius. Quite clearly, Kronenberger's ideal is 18th century England, where style "was not just a matter of stance and stride, of paying a compliment or wearing a coat. It was something men commanded in the stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown...
...them should work shorter hours. But Sketch Writers Comden & Green (On the Town) have really satiric minds, and at their best are very funny. Elliott Reid is funny, too, in a take-off of the Kefauver committee hearings. The music is all too thin, however; the dances are dullish, the production numbers mostly colorless. But thanks to its stars, a rather negligible revue still manages to be a very pleasant evening in the theater...