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...seldom have anything nice to say about any movies? Do you really feel they are all that bad and so worthy of derision, or is it just that you have some bad-review quota to fill? My husband and I used to rely on your taste, but now it seems that if we accept your guidance, we will miss many worthwhile films. Do try to be a little more objective...
Reading the names in the table of contents could convince a reader that what's happened in literature in the past century has happened here. The truth is that the famous who stream in and out of Cambridge seldom grew to greatness here, but Cullers' introduction is dedicated to the other proposition. Again, he's writing for the chauvinists, who will also be amused by the inside story of the Advocate's self-definition. The magazine that was conceived as a college newspaper and published polemics on compulsory chapel, college cheers, and Walt Whitman (all re-printed here) has also...
...Trombone was charmingly carried off like the playful banterings of back-fence gossips. The evening's major piece, Schubert's String Quintet in C, grew out of the stage like a tree of sound, alive and shapely in every line. The musicians played as it is seldom possible in full orchestra: with all the color and nuance their instruments could yield, with their hearts in their hands...
...schooner, he reported that "as soon as we set sail the natives all laid down on deck as thick as Negroes in a slave pen, and smoked and conversed and captured vermin and ate them, spit on each other, and were truly sociable." Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize...
...escapades that gave them their reputation. Although he sometimes strikes a rollicking note by writing in an Irish dialect as heavy as Kilkenny dew, all Dominic proves is that 1) Brendan, who died in 1964, was especially unattractive and unmanageable when in his cups; and 2) drunks seldom are very funny except to those who are sharing the same bottle...