Word: taming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safari, evidently desiring to make the jungle seem as tame as a well-run menagerie, is slow entertainment. Its air of careful understatement carries over into the dialogue. Mr. Fairbanks, by way of complimenting glaireous Miss Carroll's appearance, observes: "She looks nice and clean...
...going on, according to Dr. Cantril, was pure, uninfluenced "critical ability." Some child listeners possessed and used this. They recognized Orson Welles's voice as that of The Shadow of a year prior. Compared to The Shadow's well-remembered activities, the War of the Worlds was tame stuff. On the whole, college-bred listeners who first thought the program was a news broadcast were twice as successful as grade-school graduates in detecting that what they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers found, critical ability was affected by other factors tending to create...
Though the Argentine Government sent only the work of prize winners, the show is no tame academic display, spans schools from staid classicism to surrealism. Argentine artists have absorbed European techniques, put them to lively local use. Best section is the prints. Argentine print-makers are good hewers of woodcuts and drawers of water colors...
Another Sun (by Dorothy Thompson & Fritz Kortner; produced by Cheryl Crawford). When Dorothy Thompson attacks Naziism in her famed column On the Record, she is one of the deadliest haters now writing. But when, last week, she attacked it in her first play, she seemed tame as tea and weak as water. A dull, dawdling tale of refugee theatre folk in Manhattan at the time of Anschluss (Co-Playwright Kortner is himself a refugee actor). Another Sun told of their hopes & fears and of the dilemma of the most famous of them, who, unable to get work...
Federal Unionists, scoffs Wells, are too tame, too "hopelessly optimistic." But except for Wells' more bumptious language, his "Western Revolution" (led by "a sufficient number of minds throughout the world . . .") is considerably vaguer than Clarence Streit...