Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening of Hindemith, or a session with Prokolieff's latest cello sonats. The kind of music one dismisses as superficial in the winter becomes a treat to drowsy summer appetites, while the type of concert-going invited by cold weather becomes absolutely intolerable as the thermometer this eighty-ish. The problem of giving light music comfortably and informally is solved around Boston in a variety of ways...
Marta Eggert, though very soprano-ish, makes an appealing heroine, and snuggles her four feeten into Leif Erickson's brawny arms with the proper warmth. Jack Haley is still the same old Cowardly Lion, and very funny too, when he isn't forced to wring a laugh out of an old one. Still it's Rodgers' and Hart's show all the way through, but the public to get a smash hit, will have to wait until these gentlemen come around again to writing for Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva, and to hiring a new author...
...talent and technical ability cannot be disputed. Her land and sea-scapes are reminiscent of paintings executed by certain she fall into the dangerous rut of auction room impressionism, a frailty common among many artists who are painting today. Her piece entitled "Pines And Snow," contains a definite Corot-ish tendency; and Miss Mackay has, perhaps unconsciously, adapted Corot's facility for painting early morning landscapes in her won subject matter with success...