Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office receipts indicate the country likes him rugged. Possibly as a sop, Republic gives the customers some extra favors. Long-legged Tap Dancer Ann Miller (Too Many Girls) swings through a lively dance routine, croons a torchy ballad. Jimmy Durante garbles his Bronxese with dialogue like: "I resemble dat remark! . . . Dat's libel! . . . It's libel to make...
...friend of mine in high-school once had the habit of peppering his exampapers with little academic witticisms, (partly in order to raise his grade). He got one paper back totally uncorrected, except for the single terse remark: "Clover--but not true." This one phrase well strikes the effect of the Martinu quartet. It was dazzlingly clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times...
...incredible, cynical text beyond the pictures: "Look how the Reds in Spain kill their own children !" It was this cynicism of the enemy (and not an insane passion of mine for the "smell of blood") which decided me to enter the brigades which your reporter honored by the true remark that they were determined to make a living barrier of their bodies to keep Franco's Moors out of Madrid...
...Among magazines, TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE are"too vital"to be"analyzed." Nevertheless Howe gives a short chapter to them, larded with numerous gossip-begotten errors of detail but closer to the truth than most accounts. Astonishing remark: that because Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce were in the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, "the editorial policy of TIME promptly underwent a sea change...
...impression of Harvard is that it is "cold and dank" and he laments "the lack of individualistic opportunity." He is confident of a British victory in the present war, praising the English morale with the remark, "I know it is excellent. They are just itching to get a crack at the Fritzos...