Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, Bobby Hackett had been doing his own double-in-brass. He went through his routine studio chores with easy, sweet-playing confidence. Then he went to work downtown, playing the most melodic hot trumpet in the land. So far the pace was telling on neither the man nor his music...
John Sloan, 77, who has spent the past 20 years painting red-striped nudes in a downtown studio, remembers pre-Prohibition Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...
...radio candids, Allen Funt sometimes merely plants his mike and lets nature take its course. (A charming sample: two little girls gabbling in their cribs before falling asleep.) More often he plants himself, along with the hidden mike, and gives nature a nudge-heckling an incredibly sweet-tempered piano tuner; negotiating with a girl behind a perfume counter, his pockets full of live limburger...
...designers' sights are aimed at higher things than the speeds of these sweet-flying planes. Newer models, such as North American's F-86A, are already nibbling gingerly at the speed of sound, and no one doubts that the turbojet engine can soon push properly designed airframes across the threshold...
...Pleasures and Regrets is read in anticipation of a masterpiece to come, it has considerable interest. In its pale pieces can be found many of Proust's later themes: his view of human love as a sweet, evanescent sickness that briefly drives its victim to feverish pitches of feeling and then leaves him sated and bored; his fascination with the workings of human memory, which he saw as a treacherous filter distorting the qualities and meanings of past experience; and his complex attitude to high society, which delighted his snobbishness and shocked his moral feelings...