Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt is that he is a politician-a politician not in the sense of invidious epithet, but in the sense of the name of the profession skilled in gaming, keeping and wielding political power, often for praiseworthy ends...
...kindest epithet for the average documentary film is the word dull. The kindest thing to say about people who inflict such documentaries on cinemaudiences is that they confuse reality with fact. They think that photofact is intrinsically superior to photofiction, and indulge an even more mistaken idea that there is something undignified in entertaining the customers. But several recent British documentaries (some already released, others soon to be) prove that all it takes to make screen fact as good as the best screen fiction is the know...
Looking around for U.S. reaction, OWI grabbed a column by the New York Post's Samuel Grafton, who wrote: "The moronic Fttle king who has stood behind Mussolini's shoulder for 21 years has moved forward one pace." OWI added an epithet of its own: "Marshal Badoglio, a high-ranking Fascist, has been named successor." It also quoted one John Durfee, described as "the American political commentator," as saying that Mussolini's fall was not regarded in the U.S. as an event of much importance...
...Palmolive Garbo" was David Selznick's epithet for his new property. The hard-veined, soft-souled gentlemen of the press felt differently. There was something about Miss Bergman-they clawed the air for adequate words-which made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart...
What Are Her Assets? As with the press and Hollywood, so also with the nation. But not even David Selznick's Palmolive epithet, though it is first-rate poetry, affords an analysis of Miss Bergman's peculiar assets. There has been no such analysis. Yet in some degree her assets can be listed...