Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Higbee President John P. Murphy: "I am sure that TIME, as well as the public generally, will be pleased to know of the splendid reactions . . . we have had [and the] many favorable comments, including an inspiring letter from Thomas L. Sidlo, president of the Musical Arts Association operating the Cleveland Orchestra. He states : 'I have rarely seen as fine an exhibit anywhere and I am confident that your efforts will aid greatly in bringing about a greater popular appeal for fine music.' " To date, some participating department stores are making further use of TIME for Music...
...Song of Love" Metro has avoided all of these faults. The music is played well, if without much verve, by Artur Rubinstein, and there is lots of it. The film opens with a huge chunk of Loszt's E flat concerto, and later developments weave in all of Brahms' splendid G minor rhapsody, parts of his first symphony, Schumann's A minor concerto, and a good many smaller piano fragments...
...Ernest Baker is not only a splendid artist but an excellent chess player as well...
...amazing paradox of "Dark Passage" is that some of the seenes, although destroying the movie, are superb. One incident involving Bogart and a lonely taxi driver has brilliant dialogue and real human feeling. This and the splendid acting of Agues Moorchead as a pestiferous, petulant "femme fatale" give the show its only speed. When Bogart and Miss Bacall get together the picture moves along at a lazy snail's pace. During the last reel the two lovers hike off to Peru, presumably forever. This seems like a very fine idea...
...over the committee to coordinate domestic economic policy. Foreign economic policy was handled by a separate committee. Morrison failed at his job, in part because of ill health, in part because he had too many other things to do, in part because the setup itself left him in the splendid isolation of a high-level policy committee, where his executive abilities had little to take hold...