Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the shortage of competent assistant professors in the Department delays the institution of an obviously-needed change. Young instructors, who might appear logical to man this sort of course, will hesitate to accept an assignment which they might savor but which they could certainly not utilize in terms of their academic world. Meanwhile the monumental Gide must find a casual comparative niche with Hardy and Conrad in English 62 rather than emerge in the context of his own culture...
Bill Green loves his job. He is not a man to seek or savor pomp. His offices in the A.F.L.'s old building on Washington's Ninth Street-where three elderly female secretaries fuss over him with a proprietary air-are faintly reminiscent of an old folks' home. He lives in a two-room suite at the Hamilton Hotel, often eats unrecognized at Stewarts Grill, a basement restaurant near his office...
...worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from one large dish a thousand tidbits of 18th Century custom & morality that he would otherwise have to root for in the garden of biography and memoirs...
...Like many other social workers who make copy of their experiences, Author Robertson sometimes commits to print anecdotes and adventures that probably sounded fine at the time but, in type, only seem strained and amateurish, like a genteel effort to make a smutty-faced child blow its nose. The savor of the subject, however, often rises above her polite intentions...
...years after its original release Samuel Goldwyn's personal prize package looks pretty much the same: it is still elegant extravaganza bursting with top-flight specialty entertainment. The film has a superstructure of Gershwin music (last score before the composer's death); it has as well the minty savor of screen spectacles in the Thirties which sticky current jobs somehow cannot boast...