Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, between teaching classes in composition at Tanglewood, Composer Honegger toyed with a lunch of roast ham and pineapple (a gastronomic dissonance he had never encountered in France) and talked about his music. He had no favorites: "Our works are rather like our children, children that are grown up and married. Once completed, they start on a life of their own." The Boston Symphony scheduled one of the children, Symphony for Strings, for its first major Berkshire concert next week...
...stave off the inevitable, her second chance does her little good. Some of her struggling in the emotional meshes is fairly interesting, and a certain tension does develop as the clock crawls for the second time to midnight of Dec. 31; but the picture is garnished with so much ham and ineptitude that it hardly seems worth the bother...
...exploited just as crudely, but oftener and more successfully. Several of her missteps as a stage neophyte are good for laughs, and there are some funny scenes about moviemaking, in which she is stoutly abetted by William Demarest as a director, by Constance Collier as a high-nosed old ham actress, and by such old masters of journeyman slapstick as Chester Conklin and Snub Pollard. There is some faint hint of the toughness of the people who made the old movies, and a fair suggestion of the way they did their work, like children making up games as they went...
First prize (?150) went to the Hon. Hugh Fraser, Conservative M.P., who had wisely bought a notoriously intelligent companion. Then the happy hunters had a ham and tongue supper, afterward moved to London's Orchid Room. The party broke...
Harry Truman, an old critic of what he calls "ham-&-egg" art, had new and harsher words to say about it. Wrote the President, in a letter to culture-mulcher Assistant Secretary of State William Benton...