Word: meanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trollope is Angela Thirkell. She is a Trollope imitator. She has taken over his literary pace (the mild meander), his mythical landscape (Barsetshire), his preoccupation with clergymen, his ability to go on writing the same book about the same people and place without boring his fans...
...Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household, where Brennan, the village postman, is required to make middle-aged puppy love to Miss Broderick, Benchley's housekeeper. Deanna, a little more mature, a little more cosmeticized with a brand-new pair of arched eyebrows, is mainly occupied with trying to catch...
Ashurst's legislative road was an amiable meander. He voted both for the 18th Amendment and for its repeal, he voted twice for the soldiers' bonus, twice against it. Colleagues complained that his expressed views were contrary to the principle of Franklin Roosevelt's Court-packing bill, but that when the controversial bill came to Senator Ashurst's Judiciary Committee he defended it. Was that consistent? Said...
With this scheme, moreover, Sibelius is able to pack climaxes of Wagnerian scope into a symphony a half an hour long. Bruckner had great conceptions, but his ideas meander baldly around and get lost in the involvements of the sonata form. Wagner, in order to work out his climaxes fully, had to extend them endlessly. But Sibelius's method is the essence of compactness, entailing none of the delays, enforced hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly...