Word: relishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haled before the committee last week for a 20-minute confrontation that was marred only by a few heated exchanges with his archrival, Hugh Gaitskell. Nye, who like many of his Welsh constituents once lived sparely on bread and dripping (grease), now ate humble pie with a relish. He apologized deeply to Party Leader Clement Attlee "for any pain I may have caused him," and begged the committee "for nothing more than the opportunity to serve our party under his leadership." So reassuring were his words that next day the party executive decided, by a vote...
...lowbrow, refined sensibility v. raw energy, the tradition-directed writer v. the self-made writer. The palefaces, e.g., Hawthorne, Melville, James, ruled the 19th century; the redskins, e.g., Dreiser, Anderson, Wolfe, Hemingway, Faulkner, rule the 20th. As the first great chief of the redskins, Whitman would take ironic relish in the latest paleface compliment paid him, a definitive biography by New York University English Professor Gay Wilson Allen-the biggest and probably the best of some 50-odd lives of Whitman in print...
Despite his blinding smile, Lancaster does not try to deceive anyone about the black heart in his breast. Quite the contrary; he and Gary Cooper spend most of the movie trying to prove that each is a dirtier guy than the other. But they so obviously relish their parts as bad men that the intended touches of the sinister and sadistic fall to the level of good, wholesome farce. Even when a renegade American brandishes a broken whiskey bottle in Cooper's face and growls, "My father always said the bottle could ruin a man," an aura of good-natured...
...airing Psychologist Knight's anti-religious opinions. "The attacks on Mrs. Knight do Christians little credit," editorialized the conservative weekly Spectator. "It is not Christians, but her fellow scientific humanists, assuming that there are any, who have reason to be distressed by her broadcasts. They can hardly relish having the utter barrenness of their beliefs formulated and widely publicized . . . The BBC deserves congratulations for these broadcasts. The churches must press for as many more of them as possible. No longer will there be any excuse for thinking that there is something in itself clever about not being religious...
Robinson, as the detective, is dutifully inhuman throughout. The relish with which he shows movies of the Nazi gas chambers would delight any red-blooded ghoul, and his poker-face in delivering such lines as "You're shocked at my cold-bloodedness" is, for some inexplicable reason, hilarious. Welles is suitably desperate as the Nazi, even though he fails to exhibit any quality which could conceivably have inspired his wife's animal-like devotion to him. Loretta Young plays the animal...