Word: paeans
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...Prague's Rococo Theater last week, a big crowd rocked to a big beat as bearded Singer Waldemar Matuschka belted out his latest hit, a paean to the motherland called My Horse Is A-Gallopin...
...brother Richard has been in print more recently, having written Reclaiming The American Dream, a paean to the private sector...
...Gentle People, a paean to a love that might have been, and Mortmain, a chronicle of a mistress's revenge for a love that was, are too slick, but, on the whole, so well told that one scarcely minds. It is in Cheap in August that Greene delivers the full measure of his talents...
...Series. Such achievements did not daunt the contradictions in his personality. Against the theoretical wisdom of his 1929 paean, Marriage and Morals, must be set the preposterous practice of his own love life-a comedy more apparent to the reader than to the author. He was a puritan possessed of, or by, a powerful sexual nature. He tells about his industrious masturbation-at 94, he should surely allow himself to forget what he was doing at 15-and of the first time he fell in love, presumably with someone other than himself. His unhappy choice was Alys Pearsall Smith...
Obviously, Hurry Sundown was intended as a paean to racial justice, but Producer-Director Otto Preminger chooses strange ways to display his big brotherhood. One sequence shows Negro sharecroppers singing a white-eyed hallelujah number reminiscent of those '40s films that pretended to liberalize but patently patronized. Two hours of such cinematic clichés make the viewer intolerant of everyone in the film, regardless of race, creed or color...