Word: naturedness
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Discussing Dr. Ernest Jones's biography of Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (see BOOKS), Critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the New York Times this week, expressed a thought for Columbus Day. Said Trilling: "[Freud] lived by the inner light; he saw life under the aspect of personal heroism and believed that...
While Mr. Cotten and Miss Sullavan are up-braiding the producer for tricking them into Sabrina Fair, the two stars might have a word with author Samuel Taylor. Taylor has provided them with a parody of Shavian comedy. Shaw's good-natured snobbery, his interminable stretches of dialogue, his predictable...
End as a Stooge. A ventriloquist's dummy is usually the center of attention and gets most of the funny lines in a comedy act. Edgar Bergen, never as well known as his Charlie McCarthy, once lamented: "I didn't intend to end up the stooge in the...
Spanish Concert Guitarist Andrés Segovia, last reported in a Madrid hospital for a detached-retina operation (TIME, Aug. 3), was up and about with exciting news: "My operation was completely successful, thank God, thanks to the skill of the doctors and thanks to my 'good-natured nature...
On fiction's report card, Monsieur Paul rates no top grades itself, but it has some virtues that more pretentious novels often lack. Author Calet writes a clean, colloquial prose in which he gets across his good-natured sympathy for his wayward hero. Working as close to his subject...