Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operating out of a straight T formation, Coach Boston's boys have looked unimpressive only twice this year. A slight Wentworth Institute aggregation, that couldn't have averaged more than 100 pounds, held the jayvees to a 12 to 0 triumph. Later they barely managed to come back from a near defeat against a Freshman outfit that has had a spotty record this year...
...them, anyway-will go to the polls (for the fourth time in seven months) to elect 619 deputies to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. The prospect: a continuation of the present coalition government, in which the MRP (Catholic progressives) now leads the Communists by a slight margin, with the Socialists third. The plain people were not much agitated; the winter winds were beginning to blow in earnest around their scantily heated houses. They were much more interested in coal than in coalition...
...diamond jubilee was a jubilee indeed (in a restrained, Fabian way). Sir Thomas Beecham, who quit the Fabians because they slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert...
...usual, there would be a slight delay...
...show lacks is a usable plot, reasonably funny writing, good direction, and competent acting. Bits here and there lend a professional touch: Two songs, "Love Is a Random Thing" and "A Slight Case of Ecstasy" ought to make the rounds of the dance bands despite their indigestible lyrics. Miss Segal's stage presence and ability to toss off lines shame the rest of the east, although she is given practically nothing clever to say and even less to sing. On a basis of personal attractiveness and or capacity to sing, dance, or be funny, J. Edward Bromberg, Warde Donavan, Alma...