Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, Amory's anecdotal style does not wear too well, and after two hundred pages of tales about Mrs. "Jack" Gardner, Colonel Henry Lee, and Charles Francis Adams, a gentle monotony may make the attention wander. It is not surprising, then, that the most pleasant moment in the book is an interlude. Amory takes time out for, a full chapter to tell the story of the Parkman-Webster murder case, which almost burst a blue blood-vein of proper Boston in 1849. Giving the account with subdued excitement, he advances step by step through, what he calls America's classic...
...child of doting, well-to-do parents (the Theatre Guild), Allegro has been given every advantage that money can buy. For nursemaid, Joe Taylor has a full-sized Greek chorus singing Richard Rodgers' pleasant tunes; for playing after school, a full-scale Agnes de Mille ballet; for wedding music, a virtual cantata. His most uninspired thoughts reverberate through loudspeakers; his quietest desires are wired for sound. As a result, Allegro gets too big for its roots and too elaborate to have an honest Our Town warmth. Snapshots in family albums lose some of their character and charm when blown...
Once Jiminy has quit selling, the invisible Miss Shore tells and sings quite a pleasant little yarn about one Bongo (original story by Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis). Bongo is a small circus bear who answers the call of the wild on his unicycle, finds that he is a bit soft and urban for life in the raw, falls for a sexy little taupe she-bear, and engages a gigantic rival in slapstick battle...
...Unsuspected (Curtiz; Warner] is suspected too soon by the audience and too late by most of his fellow actors. The result is a long, lame melodrama about a radio star (Claude Rains) whose secretary is the first to be murdered, and various other people, pleasant and unpleasant, who hang around Rains's mansion hounding the culprit, or just waiting their turn. Among those present: Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Kurd Hatfield, Constance Bennett, Fred Clark...
...behind the board fences of Soldiers Field. The only tangible thing he had noticed was that his won conversation had been almost unconsciously steered away from the usual breakfast-table gridiron speculation. Vag had always been a little vague about rules and such things; football had always been a pleasant compromise between little men on the field and little girls in the stands. Now it seemed that there were other less mellow aspects to the whole business...