Word: heavyhandedness
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Perhaps Americans ought to listen to the Moscow radio more. What they have been missing was disclosed this week by a monitored transcript of a Christmas broadcast, beamed in English to North America. A heavyhanded tale of Santa Claus and the FBI, the broadcast would make most U.S. citizens snicker...
Arthur Stringer's biography is the first major work on Brooke since the Memoir Sir Edward Marsh wrote to go with Brooke's collected poems in 1918. Canadian Poet Stringer had the use of a bundle of material on Brooke collected by the late Richard Halliburton (The Royal...
In 1939 the Government needed a heavyhanded, blue-blooded officer to rope in some of its maverick commanders in China. It chose Prince Higashi-Kuni. He dressed down his notorious relative, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, who stood by at the rape of Nanking and subsequently at the "Death March" from Bataan...
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). Except for the serene adagio movement, Rodzinski's treatment is heavyhanded. Performance: fair. Recording: good.
Free-lance Correspondent Sedgwick mixes a heavyhanded, occasionally brilliant burlesque of war correspondents with a serious story of the tragic Battle of Greece.