Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christmas brings out the pixie in record companies, or at least it encourages them to bring out their pixie singers. Time was when things were sweet and sentimental-as when homesick G.I.s made a nice, solid hit of Irving Berlin's White Christmas-but that mood was dimmed in the smoke of a goofy juvenile called All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (1948), and the pixies took over. The following year, all the kiddie stars were lisping the lyrics of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and 1952 brought the coyest Christmas hit, I Saw Mommy...
...altar while Loring Smith huffs and bellows, and British Actress Eileen Herlie plays a vivacious widow with bright, broad charm. If sometimes just loud and at other times too cute, The Matchmaker can also, as in a sudden whispered harmonizing of Tenting Tonight, turn warm and sweet. It can even be a little bashfully philosophical. Everyone connives with too much good nature and high spirits for any real claw to lurk beneath such a catcher's mitt of a play. But there are intimations, at least, that mankind is wonderfully foolish and money looms immoderately large; and that...
...Matchmaker (by Thornton Wilder) by another name did not smell anything like so sweet. As The Merchant of Yonkers-a rewrite of a century-old Viennese farce-it was pretty much of a flop when produced on Broadway in 1938. But as further rewritten by Playwright Wilder and lustily staged by Tyrone Guthrie, what once merely clattered now careens, what formerly sputtered now explodes...
...exactly the same basis as you belong to the N.A.M." Sligh said: "It's not the same thing. In a union you can't leave and still eat." Back came Meany: "There are more nonunion men eating in America than union men." On that note of sweet unreasonableness, the meeting ended...
...writes his verse in order to amaze, To win the Pulitzer, or TIME'S sweet praise...