Word: naturedness
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It is unfortunate that Fanny attached no importance whatever to her writing, and that she accepted, though with injured feelings, Louis' good-natured taunt that she had the "soul of a peasant." A mere four years with Fanny Stevenson's steady eye leaves the reader wanting more.
When she wants to talk about what is closest to her heart-the glorious career of Marjorie Morningstar-she goes to the West gos brownstone flat of her dearest friend, a' fat, good-natured girl with intellectual pretensions named Marsha Zelenko. Marsha lives with her parents in an apartment...
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts got right with the bubble-gum set last week, by exhibiting a rare contemporary portrait of Davy Crockett. Painted by one John Neagle in 1828, it shows Crockett as a freshman Congressman in a flowing tie. The canvas jibes well with a contemporary word...
Austria's Foreign Minister Leopold Figl had gone out of his way to say that Austrian independence was "particularly due to American help." When Molotov arrived from Warsaw (see above), all grinny with benevolence, Figl greeted him at the airport with a good-natured but double-edged reference to...
But pleasure is precisely what Man of Letters Louis Kronenberger (The Thread of Laughter, The Pleasure of Their Company) can find in books, along with enlightenment and instruction. The Republic of Letters is a collection of literary essays that presents writers as exciting companions rather than as cadavers for hypercritical...