Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streamlined storehouse: "We want to overcome the feeling of the public that they have to see the whole damn thing on a Sunday afternoon." Already so big that museum guards can safely hold pistol practice in the basement, the new Met will be enough to occupy an art lover's entire vacation...
Elizabeth Janeway, whose first novel, The Walsh Girls, was a best-seller in 1943, has made Daisy Kenyan out of these fascinatingly unhappy people and their jittery world of New York, Washington, Connecticut, and Nantucket. At 32, Daisy is a beautiful, successful, emancipated magazine illustrator. For eight years her lover has been shrewd, rugged Dan O'Mara. Then she meets and marries high-strung magazine editor Peter Lapham...
Rudy Vallee, the Vagabond Lover, was singing the Stein Song With Yale-boy gusto. America's other favorite band, Paul Whiteman's, played a promising new song called With a Song in My Heart. Bing Crosby was touring in vaudeville. That week the stockmarket crashed, and Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt introduced a Chicago band to its customers. The band, fancily titled Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, played Stardust and My Blue Heaven. They still...
...script allows Miss Bergman to do very little except tensely beg her lover to remember his boyhood. By flexing his jaw muscles and narrowing his eyes, Peck does his best to register the fact that all is not well with him. But despite the drag of the psychoanalytical theme, Director Hitchcock's deft timing and sharp, imaginative camera work raise Spellbound well above the routine of Hollywood thrillers. Again & again he injects excitement into an individual scene with his manipulation of such trivia as a crack of light under a door, a glass of milk, or the sudden wailing...
...outlive her lover by 27 years-years of feverish activity in politics and writing. Just as she had captured her own generation as romantic and lover, she thrilled a new generation as radical and feminist. Author Winwar, who is something of a radical and a feminist herself, sees in this change of emphasis George Sand's splendid transition from the life of self to the life of "common humanity." Most readers may prefer the calmer summing-up of Novelist Henry James: "There is something very liberal and universal in George Sand's genius, as well as very masculine...