Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony Orchestra (The Testament of Freedom; Victor, 6 sides). Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait (Columbia, 4 sides) is narrated by Negro Baritone Kenneth Spencer to a derivative score played by the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. In both these cases the words are wasted on pretentious, slight music...
Kirkland appeared to have a slight edge in the initial innings, but the Bellboys put on the pressure in a big four-run uprising in the top of the fourth, and were never again headed. Curley poled a tremendous homer to the Stadium wall in that frame with two mates aboard, after cohort Pete Marble had clouted another four-master with the sacks empty...
Fauteux, in his impressive black robes, with his tricornered hat walked in. He took his impressive seat. There was a slight hush...
...style, long on anecdote and short on big, dull facts.'Like Collier's Quentin Reynolds, Kyle Crichton and Jim Marshall, he is a swift, easy writer. He regards his promotion as more of the same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson's New York Daily News. Says Editor Davenport: "I intend to edit the magazine from a reporter's viewpoint. No ivory...
Ninette de Valois, director of Britain's famed Sadlers Wells Ballet, was among the hissers. Backstage, Lifar announced to everyone in hearing: "I was magnificent." Two London critics agreed, but they were a small minority. The Manchester Guardian referred to "a slight and foolish demonstration of political feeling," and added tartly: "The audience's displeasure should much more properly have been reserved for the choreography...