Word: quainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like too many documentaries, this one would be monotonous if it did not convey a charm which the audience feels increasingly as the picture progresses. Gunsbach looks as friendly and quaint as the post-cards of Spring in Alsace, but Schweitzer's narration tells how he grew up in the village, and this village lives for the audience. Sensitive shots of Lambarene's patients: a tired woman nursing a tired baby; a disarmingly attractive child with leprosy; men scratching their bottoms because they itch; all add to the charm...
...William J. Brennan Jr. Of the F.D.R. holdovers, Justice Black is now 70, Justice Frankfurter 74. Only hard clues as to whom Ike might choose to replace Reed: 1) Ike prefers to appoint lawyers with experience on the bench rather than deserving politicians, and 2) he might heed the quaint geographic fact that no Supreme Court Justice now hails from anywhere between Cleveland (Burton) and Puget Sound (Douglas...
...curious duality of Rameau consists of the stern formalization of his harmony combined with his quaint and often humorous pictorialization. These two facets are much in evidence in this attractive album of his complete harpsichord music. Pieces such as "The Hens" or "The Joke" are marvelously descriptive but obey Rameau's strict harmonic rules which caused such a controversy in his day. Harpsichordist Robert Vernon-Lacroix gives a properly stylized rendition and the re-ording is precise. (Westminster...
...back home about his visits to foreign ports. Admiral Brown is both sensitive and salty. "You can't put a martini in a refrigerator," he says, "any more than you can put in a kiss"; and he sums up his 1921 wedding to Marylander Eleanor Green in a quaint, jazz-age way: ''We exchanged sarcasms and fell in love, a well-known...
When will TIME accept-even grudgingly-the fact that Harry Truman is no longer a candidate for the presidency? Harry and his "rascals" were evicted several years ago. According to TIME'S quaint type of thought...