Word: mellowness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glory is Belloc's great range of tone-a diversity of poetic styles that travel all the way from nimble, sarcastic diatribes against the faults of "us poor hobbling, polyktonous and betempted wretches of men" to what his friend Baring described as "grave prose like the mellow tones of a beautifully played cello...
John Dos Passos' massive, radical trilogy, U.S.A. (1930-36), sizzled with social protest, sent admiring critics scurry-ng to Balzac and Tolstoy for comparisons. Now a mellow 55, Dos Passos has put together a long, loose chronicle that parallels the history of many an intellectual of his own generation...
After a Salzburg recital, at which courteous critics favorably compared her personality with that of France's Mistinguetr but tactfully omitted mention of her voice, oldtime Opera Diva Maria Jeritza, now a mellow 63, arrived in Vienna. Looking forward to hearing her try another comeback next week, enthusiastic fans swarmed the streets; a band serenaded her hotel until she stepped out on the balcony and threw garlands of flowers to the crowd. Her husband, a Newark umbrella manufacturer, was doing his part to help the buildup. He had already given away 10,000 umbrellas to his wife...
...darkened room at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel this week, newsmen watched a large, opaque, glass ceiling-panel suddenly light up, flood the room with a mellow glow. There was no bulb or fluorescent tube behind the glass panel, yet its whole surface glowed evenly...
...Forest, 77, inventor of the electron tube, who sometimes worries about its development into radio and television, had a moment of mellow reflection following General MacArthur's coverage on TV. Wrote De Forest in a letter to the New York Times: "In the past I have complained bitterly about some of the uses to which 'my children,' radio and television, have been put . . . [But] what an aid to democracy talking pictures, radio and television can be. Instead of a static photograph or a brief glimpse of a man going by in a car, the American citizen...