Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from her gray hair and wrinkles as Elizabeth the Queen emerged radiant and lovely in the part of Frau Elena Krug. It is not too much to say that to gaze at Lynn Fontanne, to follow her movements carefully is an experience only too rare in a world of harsh vulgarities. She does wonderfully in her part; her poise, her dress, her voice are all exquisite...
...Phillips is innocent. The warden uses a convenient telephone to tell Preston Foster that his friend Phillips has been proved innocent, will be reprieved if they all surrender. Foster agrees for the sake of the picture's plot, walks out into the guards' hail of bullets. Most of the harsh ironies of the play, such as the scene between the "Killer"' and the prison chaplain, are omitted...
...McGraw grew older and fatter, he became more dignified. He remained irritable, a harsh disciplinarian. There was reported to be dissension between manager and players. First act of Manager Terry last week was to "give the boys a break." Said he: "They won't have to report to the park at 10 in the morning or go to bed at any certain hour. . . . All I'm to ask is that they play good ball...
...stranger who dropped in on a Buchman soul-washing session might fancy that he had somehow gotten into the Sultan's palace on one of the Thousand and One Nights. But if the harsh outsider should remark that public confession of major and minor sins is called by the psychologists exhibitionism, or if anyone should suggest that the Huchman method of salvation, in its goal and in its procedure, is curiously like falling off a henhouse roof into a pile of featherbeds, that will not disturb the faithful. They will agree with a member who remarked at Briarcliff: "I cannot...
...trying now to develop an authentic Mexican music from purely native sources. In his own music Chavez makes the winds of the modern orchestra shrill stridently like primitive chirimias. He has added swishing gourds to the conventional percussives. But most of H. P.'s music was too obtrusively harsh and loud for listeners on first hearing to detect the Indian tunes which he claims to be part & parcel of his work. It costs Mary Louise Curtis Bok a tidy sum to finance the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company's carefully prepared productions. When Stokowski conducts, the bills are still...