Word: enchante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat of taste, and the feeling of hunger resides in the stomach." Not complete imbeciles, they become suspicious of historians on reading that the Loire during the French Revolution was "red with blood from Saumur to Nantes, a length of 45 miles." But Dumas' romantic novels enchant them with the news of life they find there, i.e., that "love observes the proprieties, fanaticism is lighthearted, massacres excite a smile." Flaubert's unwritten but clearly foreshadowed ending: frustrated and impoverished, the simpletons go back to work as copying clerks...
...critics refused to be pushed over. Wrote the Daily Express' John Barber: "My goodness ... I got a 42nd Street Madame Butterfly. I hoped for a new leading man to rival Ezio Pinza. I got Wilbur Evans. . . an old uncle with the fire gone out. . . Only a moderately enchanting evening. People will say I'm in love . . . with Oklahoma!" The Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson thought the plot moved too slowly. Said he: "It seemed to be more like South Soporific." Yet the critics, despite their reservations, were quick to admit that South Pacific seemed destined to enchant...