Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than adequate support by the suave charm of Tullio Carminati, the explosive humour of Louis Alberni, and the truly excellent technical and musical work which have been expended on this picture. Despite these other virtues, however, the film is all Miss Moore's. The plot is simple and straightforward and has the great advantage of providing Miss Moore with the maximum opportunity for using her voice. She sings all sorts of music ranging from the modern "One Night of Love" to the difficult last act aria of Madame Butterfly all with finished technique and remarkable richness considering that...
Topical and straightforward, Mr. Myers' prayers "are offered in the belief that the social gospel and the individual gospel are one." For example, on Race Relations Sunday or following a lynching, he recommends the following...
...Last week, led by members of the Roman Catholic Church, they were embarked on a new crusade, brandishing a new weapon-the boycott. That they were in earnest impressed even hardboiled Variety, which for once put aside its racy style to tell about the "Legion of Decency" in a straightforward article headlined: "CATHOLICS WOULD ENLIST ALL FAITHS-Need for Prompt Action to Avert Drastic Penalties Upon Picture Industry Urged in East-Real Danger...
MUCH has been written against the Soviet regime in Russia, but rarely has there been published a more effective protest than this new book, "Escape From the Soviets." It is a straightforward, patently honest account of the hardships suffered in Soviet Russia by the family of a middle-class university professor...
...Aiken's prose is simple, lucid, and straightforward. His choice of titles highly imaginative, and, if the test of a short story is an indelible imprint left on the mind of the reader, "Thistledown," "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," and Mr. Arcularis" will attain immortality as far as this writer is concerned...