Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To these testy quirks Parson Dodgson added a formidable string of prejudices, e.g., against ill-natured satire, preaching sermons, "bandying small talk with dull people," "jesting and flippancy on sacred topics," negligence on the part of college servants. He wrote dozens of indignant letters to the newspapers-once, at least...
At 86, and perhaps a bit tired from bouts with illness this season, Toscanini made a change in his routine for the opera. Most of the piano rehearsals with the soloists took place in his home, instead of at NBC's Manhattan studios. But when everybody got together for...
Based on an actual incident in California where a motorcycle club nearly wrecked a small city, the plot warms up with good-natured pranks, shifts to drunken brawls, and then speeds to an open clash between the irate residents and the invading cyclists.
One of the disappointments of the year was John Hersey's The Marmot Drive, the story of a Connecticut woodchuck hunt, full of murky meanings and pseudo-archaic Yankee lingo. One of the real surprises of the year was the belated bow in fiction of aged (81) Philosopher Bertrand...
What raises Kismot above the standard of an old Maria Montez movie are the engaging performances of a cast which refuses to take any of the show's claptrap seriously. Well-rehearsed after a WEst Coast run of two months, the company gambols through Kismot with good-natured case. Even...