Word: kindlier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curbstone coming-out party attracted a lot of people, though F.D.R.'s eldest (41) son might well have preferred a fine public dinner, full of resounding endorsements from Democratic bigwigs. Unfortunately, most old-line California Democrats regard Jimmy as something of a Typhoid Mary. Among their kindlier criticisms they accused him of being a carpetbagger-a point which he met in his broadcast with a time-honored political cliche: "I congratulate those of you who, like my sons and daughter, had the foresight to be born here. The rest of us, three out of every five Californians, have...
...unsympathetic. It is a fine mood setting for the vicious fishing village, and Grimes' proscription by the other inhabitants is well portrayed. There are several numbers which stand out: the quartet the end of the first scene of act two, Grimes' song, "In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home," and Ellen's "Embroidery in childhood." There are also some chorus tunes which show Britten's skill at folk music. The most effective writing is in the alternation of Ellen's singing to the apprentice with excerpts from the church service off-stage...
...expressed in its condemnation of sexual misdoings; that the tormented love affairs reveal a groping tenderness deeper than the bitter words that attend their endings; and finally, that the whole texture of life, the routines of going to work and to school, marriage and the raising of families, is kindlier and happier than is ever stated in books like this...
Congress was still "thinking of atomic power in terms of bombs. So, despite all their efforts to think of the atom's kindlier uses, were the men who had unleashed...
Such poets as Sandburg, Masters, Riding are brutally panned; kindlier treated are Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Euripides and his translators Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Housman was no great minor poet; he was a man obsessed by an adolescent sense of death, with a knack for popular expression of it. Yeats used magic as Dante used Catholicism, as the spine or frame that great poetry needs. But T. E. Lawrence exemplifies the desperation, the brilliance, the failure, of the man of genius who can find no frame...