Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fradd scoffs at body-building correspondence courses, advertised in many magazines. "Music size does not necessarily indicate power," he said. "It is the co-ordinated whole, rather than the bulk which determine physical fitness and muscular agility." Trend of Posture Ratings Grades...
...emotional heights of tender love scenes, he appears stiff and wooden. What the film suffers in this respect, however, is more than compensated for by Robert Morley in his role as Louis XVI. This young actor does a masterful picturization of the loyal, but pathetically simple King, who would rather fashion wooden soldiers than attend to affairs to state...
...give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...
Writing in a minute, almost unreadable script, which he explained made it difficult for people to detect his errors in spelling, Steffens jotted down a few paragraphs of his letters every morning, sometimes forgot to mail them. With their air of being written for himself rather than for the people who received them, they are unique in published correspondence-as if Steffens had kept a diary, but found life too interesting to hide its record away, tearing off a few pages from time to time and sending them to his friends...
Author Kantor's story is teasing and ingenious rather than effective. As in his Civil War novels (Long Remember, Arouse and Beware, etc.), MacKinlay Kantor has a graphic sense of the U. S. past, writes good descriptive narrative, and creates an atmosphere of tension. But in The Noise of Their Wings he goes lame shuttling between the past and present, and most of his vitality appears to have been exhausted in devising a modern plot. The characters in The Noise of Their Wings resemble real people about as closely as the Smithsonian's well-stuffed passenger pigeon resembles...