Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call "Show Boat" anything but glorious and magnificent is to charge verbally into a line of critical and popular opinion that has held solidly for twenty years, progressively extolling first the original production and then each of two revivals. Nevertheless, ignoring for the moment whatever else it may be, "Show Boat" is not a great musical. It tells a dull story peopled with dull characters. Never does it generate more than a mild, academic curiosity as to what will happen next, and whatever does happen next invariably justifies the lack of anticipation...
...moment of impact, it seemed that the Sky Queen had been swallowed. People watching from two circling trans-'atlantic DC-45 saw her disappear completely in a great wash of white water. Then, miraculously, she reappeared "like a huge whale" and wallowed noisily toward the rolling Bibb...
...Stand by Your Posts." One enterprising reporter discovered why. In a grim moment of Chinese history, Peiping's staid Municipal Council had had a grimly amusing idea: a whole battalion of potential
...grew redder as he discussed physiological details, with blackboard drawings. Autumn Fragrance and Jade Object nervously lighted cigarettes, violating the ban on smoking in class. When a policeman reprimanded them, they angrily retorted that they Would not listen to such "obscene speech." The policeman drew a pistol, but a moment later retreated before the screaming and clawing girls...
Unfortunately, Amory's anecdotal style does not wear too well, and after two hundred pages of tales about Mrs. "Jack" Gardner, Colonel Henry Lee, and Charles Francis Adams, a gentle monotony may make the attention wander. It is not surprising, then, that the most pleasant moment in the book is an interlude. Amory takes time out for, a full chapter to tell the story of the Parkman-Webster murder case, which almost burst a blue blood-vein of proper Boston in 1849. Giving the account with subdued excitement, he advances step by step through, what he calls America's classic...