Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stagewise technique-of a veteran. The voice she displayed was not yet a big one, but it had a smooth, satiny quality ideally suited to the menacing, feline tension of her carefully calculated movements. Her opening-night performance was received with warm applause and scattered smart-aleck brays of "Little, go home!" By the second performance, she had her audience cheering after both her big first-act arias. Concluded one influential critic: "The debut came perhaps a bit too early, but it might well be the beginning of a great stage career...
...Mendl, 86, Britain's longtime (1926-40) Paris diplomatic press attache who was known as a mystery-cloaked, behind-the-scenes diplomat; after long illness; in Paris. After the death of his U.S.-born hostess-interior decorator wife, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, who lorded it over the international smart set for decades by splashing lavish parties in Paris, Beverly Hills and Versailles, he married (at 79) a 37-year-old violinist, who died a year...
...something called Brotherhood of the Bell, a pretentious melodrama about a conspiratorial fraternity in 1976, which posed a question for the producers: Was it really worth making Betty pack those ten boxes of clothes and 18 pieces of luggage and leave her roomy apartment on Manhattan's smart East Side...
...that is as powerful as anything in a recent novel. It is also a savage attack on the German people. A young intellectual rants about the complacency that allowed Hitler's rise: "We have outstanding religious leaders and brilliant philosophers; we have gifted musicians and soldiers; we have smart bankers and remarkable whoremas-ters; we have everything-except human beings." Lieut. Teichmann agrees half-heartedly with the half-truths, then changes his mind, protests that there is some meaning, at least, in fighting courageously...
...that anachronistic imp," he smiled, giving me the same amused look he'd accorded the mention of Billy Graham. "Superficial, smart-aleck, shallow. And outdated. Agnostics are eighteenth century...