Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Neville's pallid Hamlet is very much in tune with the production--not a hair is out of place. Mr. Neville plays not passion and fury, but sweet, mild melancholy. Hamlet's brilliant sarcasm, which should flash like lightning to relieve his overcharged soul, pales into insignificance; the clouds that hang on the soul of this Hamlet are the merest, most forgettable wisps...
...down lugging pig iron for the nation's new steel industry; the bureaucracy is making a mess of distribution. Last month the people of Canton, who live next to a sea of fish, could get no fish; Shanghai residents had to take half of their rice ration in sweet potatoes...
...Stung (Elvis Presley; RCA Victor). Pfc. Presley may be out of sight, but he is never out of whine. His latest message to the folks on the home front: "Ah got stung by a sweet honeybee . . . " If Ah live to be a hunnerd 'n' two,/ Ah won't let nobody sting...
...Soft & Sweet. NBC is beefing up its programing, hopes to produce shows so attractive that its affiliates will have no excuse to turn them down. NBC Radio's Executive Vice President Matthew J. Culligan sells his product with a highly polished Madison Avenue pitch. His patter is as distinctive as his black eyepatch, a souvenir of a losing scrap with a hand grenade during the Battle of the Bulge. He talks in terms of "imagery transfer" (which is simply radio cashing in on established TV advertising slogans, a method of attacking the public's ears while it rests...
...young man and a girl. The three soon had few secrets from each other. The two men spoke of their growing distaste for the way things were going back home. The girl, though present at these talks, made no comment herself, and the men thought her just a sweet, simple girl with no head for politics...