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...their first meeting, the naturalist Louis Halle found Carson "quiet, diffident, neat, proper and without affectation." Nothing written about her since seems to dispute this. But for all her modesty and restraint, she was not prim. She had a mischievous streak, a tart tongue and confidence in her own literary worth...
Surely your photograph of Shalit was intended to evoke titters, as it shows her reclining on a sofa, the defender of feminine modesty happily fondling her pussycat Milton (for Friedman), thereby doubly prim about love and money. I espy antifeminist symbolism. PHILIP M. RIDEOUT New York City...
...century's turn, Dow died, Jones sold out, and in came the new owners: Jessie Waldron Barron, a prim Boston boardinghouse keeper; and her insatiable journalist husband, who persuaded her to put up the $2,500 down payment. Clarence Walker Barron, 5 ft. 5 in. and 300 lbs. in his prime, was a high-living, big-investing champion of unrestrained capitalism who improved the Journal's standards while ordering up stories promoting companies whose shares he owned...
...most of the talking, in a gentle English accent or a brusque German one, but what makes him a great shot for film eminence is how suavely he listens. Listens with his eyes, attentive to nuances of lust or fear that may not even be there. Reacts with a prim wryness that hints at the Nazi's superiority, at Whale's indulgence. These lovely scenes give the audience a chance to study McKellen in wary repose. It's a face worth studying. A movie face, as Hollywood should soon understand...
...over Feingold's objections, the League of Conservation Voters and the AFL-CIO have run a few advocacy ads criticizing Neumann. "It would be O.K. if he weren't such a hypocrite about it," says Neumann. "But he wants the Republican Party to go away and to leave the prim and proper Democrats alone." Last week Neumann, stuck in budget talks in Washington, excoriated Feingold for staying on the campaign trail. "Tell him to get off his dead butt and get the job done," he said...