Word: meatiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paraphrase of Aristotle. Adler's new readers prove his point. Invited to submit their meatiest questions, they have bombarded him with 2,500. Adler sorts the mail into "C" (useless), "B" (perhaps) and "A" (usable), has already accumulated a three-year supply of A's. These get published in his weekly column, and win a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Great Books (54 volumes, value $300), which Adler co-edited in the 1940s with Robert Hutchins. then the University of Chicago's chancellor...
...that has been pressed too long in the family Bible. As Eve Black, she shakes it around with considerable virtuosity. And as Jane, she breathes a calm, midsummer warmth of maturity. But time and again, the script forces her to change character so often and so quickly that her meatiest moments sometimes look like rather thinly sliced...
Geordie threw, and Geordie won by such an impressive margin that he was haled away to Australia with the British Olympic team, but there at last he met his match: a 6-ft. lady shotputter named Helga. What happens next is probably the meatiest love affair known to show business since Barnum publicized Jumbo and Alice, and it is certainly one of the funniest in years. The moviegoer should have a thoroughly silly good time just sitting and watching two people make beautiful muscles together...
Berg: Violin Concerto (Louis Krasner; Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinsky; Columbia). One of the meatiest, most listenable concertos of the century, played by the man who introduced it in 1936. Written in the twelve-tone technique, it combines all the nervous subtleties of that idiom with the undeniable decadence of Berg's own style, but still appeals strongly to the ear. More complex (and less appealing) is the piece on the reverse side: another great modern...
Despite the defect inherent in a film adaptation, the screen "Glass Menagerie" is a very good job. The script requires only four important speaking parts. Three are very well acted and the fourth is done competently. Gertrude Lawrence handles the meatiest role, that of the faded belle, and she proves that she deserved it. Her part demands several long speeches without much accompanying action, something difficult to put over in a movie. Miss Lawrence never misses; she brings out the peculiar combination of guts and hot air of the character se portrays...