Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perils is a good-humored show, mainly designed to please people who enjoy hissing the villain. Those who used to be too excited to hiss, and who wildly applauded Pearl's always predictable but always miraculous escapes, will feel there is a good deal missing. The chances are that Pearl herself, with her prominent film career and her long, sporting afterglow in Europe, was a much more interesting woman than is suggested in this movie. It is also possible that a movie which showed the making of those first, primitive flickers as it really happened would be good...
...Progressive forces in all countries enjoy the support of a power without which no international decision can be taken, namely the Soviet Union...
...husband and I agree that your article on Billy Rose is far too biased to be a true picture. Like so many others who have never met Mr. Rose, we enjoy his columns and appreciate the personality that is formed by them. We feel he deserves all that he has attained...
...years, Herbert Read has written 20-odd books of poetry, criticism and biography (Wordsworth; In Defense of Shelley) and become Britain's top authority on modern art. He is a not uncommon type of his generation-an intellectual who was born early enough to enjoy the traditional tranquillity of Victorian rural England, but who reached an individualistic maturity during the disordered years between two wars. It is in this respect that his autobiography makes good reading-for Read shuns sensational confessions and concentrates on the varying influences that left their marks on his mind...
...petty issues of UN and those Russians, you have utterly failed to attack one of the most heinous practices in this fair land of ours. What is it, you may ask with a sneer. Of course it is the custom of the intentional pass--in baseball. Now listen: I enjoy baseball, love to see the Red Sox play. I go out on a warm June afternoon to see Williams slug away, and what inevitably happens? There are men on second and third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill of pleasure that makes me quiver to think that...