Word: sordid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To James Thomas Farrell, 43, author of the sad and sordid Studs Lonigan trilogy, and Hortense Alden Farrell: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: John Stephen. Weight...
...Picasso took on as aim the fantastic wager of destroying the phantom of 'official' beauty and substituting his own personal concept of beauty. He pursues and discovers beauty even in objects regarded as ugly-just as light sometimes lends to sordid things effects of gorgeous color...
...piece de resistance" is "My Untold Story," which is the intimate and revealing account of Benchley's attempts and failures to become contaminated by the sordid world of sin, sex, and Scotch. Fresh from a college "notorious for its high living"--remember this is Benchley's story and things have changed since then--he tried desperately to besmirch his unsullied life in such dens of vice as Broadway, Hollywood, and Paris. According to his report he remained disgustingly pure. But one wonders. Benchley could hardly have acquired his knowledge of the finer points of life by reading "Colliers" over...
They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young and Susan Hayward in a shrewd, sordid show about love and money (TIME, June...
Disingenuous Nosiness. Author Goertz sees her heroine as only a little lower than the angels. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps: a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity...