Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Californian, nor am I a psychiatrist. I am one who suffered conditions as bad as the Okies for 15 years of my life-I wrote about it in the Atlantic, in the Nation, and in a book. Nor am I jealous because my book [We Sagebrush Folks'] was a best lender and not a best seller...
Leave Her to Heaven tells of a middle-aged married woman who has an affair with her young chauffeur. An insanely jealous youth, he bashes in the husband's skull with a mallet. The wife, to save her lover, confesses to the crime; the lover confesses also. He is convicted and sentenced to be hanged; she is acquitted and kills herself...
...hanging in a museum. It really wasn't much of a painting, but then it's very difficult to find one that is much of a painting. No one seemed to pay any attention to this neatly-framed bit of canvas, and after a while, it naturally became very jealous of the other paintings which were being exhibited in the same museum. Never, during its entire lifetime, had this forlorn little collection of palette-scrapings experienced the supreme thrill of receiving such adjectival orchids as "significant form," or "masterly brushwork." not once in its whole career had it been afforded...
...kindly, jealous Hugo Matuschek, Frank Morgan (who has a flair for Central European roles) turns in his best perform ance since he was Diana Wynyard's husband in Reunion in Vienna. William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...
Heldentenor. Lauritz Melchior is not a natural tenor. Jealous Italians refer to him sniffily as a misplaced baritone. Actually, he is an authentic example of a very rare type of singer: the true Wagnerian Heldentenor (heroic tenor). Most tenors have fairly light voices: their honey-voiced wailing is orchestrated to an accompaniment that will not drown them out. But Wagner had no use for such lightweights: the true Heldentenor must be able to out-boom a phalanx of trombones. Richard Wagner's heroes are strenuous fellows, who would willingly break a blood vessel to get to Walhalla, and Wagner...