Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liebman has unfortunately relegated humor, whenever there is any, to a poor second place. In only one skit does the audience get a chance to painful manner...
Local traffic experts believe that this series of accidents is due to the poor visibility on the approaches to the intersection. The corner is marked by a triangular plot of land on which stands an aging building housing a clothing store and an undergraduate magazine; across the street from this structure is a cleaning establishment and another undergraduate publication. These structures effectively block the vision of any driver attempting to see through them to scan the traffic flow of the constantly active corner...
Faulkner's detective-hero, Gavin Stevens, is a small-town Mississippi lawyer with gritty common sense and a shrewd insight into poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes-but Faulkner runs him to the ground by overloading him with unnecessary and undemonstrated learning ("a Harvard graduate . . . who could discuss Einstein with college professors") and with too much folksy moralizing...
Once in a while, the old Faulkner power comes through in a blaze of language, an original phrase (a gangster has "a face like a shaved wax doll"), or an insight into rural character. But except for Tomorrow, an effective account of how the family loyalties of a poor-white clan can tangle the job of justice, the stories fall between two stools: they are neither ingenious enough to be good detective yarns nor deep and free enough to be good Faulkner Detective-story fans will be horrified to find crucial clues spelled out in italics; Faulkner fans will find...
Both clubs combined to open the program with "Ecce Jam Noctis" by George W. Chadwick, arranged for brass and woodwinds by Walter Piston. The work was very interesting, but it was hampered by the poor playing of members of the Yale hand and singing which was not nearly so polished as that in the rest of the program...