Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol's echoing rotunda. He sat down, idly began playing The Lost Chord. After a few notes he stopped, awed. The Capitol dome, fourth highest in the world, had amplified the organ notes to rolling musical thunder. Raboin experimented. He discovered that by sounding different notes on a low pedal he could create sympathetic vibrations in the rotunda of the Capitol. The effect was terrifying. The sound rose to an eerie roar. It rattled the windows, shook doors, threatened to bring down the 5½-ton chandelier suspended from the dome's cap.* But that was only...
Rival press associations, which neither confirmed nor tried to scotch the Lochner stories, nervously waited to see whether the A.P.'s German ace was on his way to another Pulitzer Prize, or whether his "inside information" would eventually assay as low as similar lurid accounts from the anonymous "Swedish travelers in Germany" who always know the Wilhelmstrasse "inside...
...such good use that the chances are it will charm him instead. For The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an uncommonly rich and pleasant study in character, both human and national. It brings to the screen the greatest English character since Pickwick: Cartoonist David Low's walrus-whiskered epitome of unenlightened self-interest...
...Low's famed cartoons, Blimp acts out in black & white, by one class and political reflex after another, the whole tragicomic history of a special kind of British stupidity. The screen's version of Blimp, in rosy Technicolor, is not a Low specimen of humanity at all, but one long apologia for the better side of the Low character. Watching on the screen how the old man got that way, you would never suspect that the Colonel and his kind had anything to do with bringing on the Second World War. Even insofar as Blimp is shown...
...movie is incomplete without the gently savage cartoons, by the same token the cartoons are incomplete without the affectionately explanatory movie. Many liberals and leftists are going to feel that Blimp has been whitewashed into a Dear Old Boy-as indeed he has; but David Low himself, who advised on the characterization and makeup, is well satisfied. Says he: "Blimp is a symbol of stupidity and stupid people are not necessarily hateful. In fact, some stupid people are quite nice...