Word: nits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble is that Boston (or any other place) just couldn't be as nit-witted as MGM's version of it. All of the sure fire of conflict that forces the Apley of the novel to reexamine his life every time he brushes against the non-Boston world--is telescoped into two dozen or so scenes that are very inadequate. One by one the facets of Apley's life are given five-minute treatment until he becomes a predictable, uncomplicated incompetent who can be counted on for the wrong decision, or at least a carefully articulated Malapropism...
...Kindest thing," pontificated the Club Bore from his murky corner, "is to say he's a misguided, political nit...
...flustered young man in new tweeds, but he found himself helping him to pick up the jumbled mass of desk blotters, catalogues and sample newspapers dropped by his excited assailant. "Freshman, I presume?" he queried. "You bet, the Class of '45 is here,"--and the nit was suddenly off and down the street...
...chance of surviving it appeared to be a.fcout one in five. In spite of the mag-nit' j and complexity of action. Generalissimo Weygand trained his guns calmly, recoiled only foot by foot, called upon his men to resist in the great French tradition...