Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
...case of P.S. 54 was a fresh reminder to New Yorkers that their public-school system, though the nation's biggest (862,000 pupils), is a long jump from being its best, may well be among its worst big-city systems. Like P.S. 54, one-third of the city's 800 schools were built before 1900; 21 antedate the Civil War. More than 280 are fire traps, and 250 lack adequate plumbing (eight have only outhouses...
James Duncan Phillips' book has none of the romance and the fresh salt air of Morison's unforgettable work; it is exact, down to earth, sometimes crabbed and partisan. Mr. Phillips is a retired businessman, for 25 years treasurer of Houghton Mifflin, and a local historian, the author of Salem in the Seventeenth Century and Salem in the Eighteenth Century, His prose is as clear and dry as a salary check. He has written what is probably the best history that there is, factual and authoritative, of an American port...
...relatives prepared for her needs in another world. Buried with her were seven frozen horses (important in nomad symbolism), a gold-trimmed dagger, wood and clay vessels for food & drink. A box of cheese was still fresh (one of the diggers' dogs ate a piece with enthusiasm...
...Henry Fonda is a shrewd comedian, in spite of having to play that eternal Lost Little Boy who unleashes skittish maternal emotions. Dana Andrews, a most talented actor, has to call someone "honeybunch" umpteen times in this show, yet he never fails to make it a more or less fresh revelation of character. Director Otto Preminger is expert at the glossy details that are useful to this sort of story...