Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times Book Review, Pianist Artur Rubinstein wrote a tart review of French Novelist Andre Gide's Notes on Chopin. Sample Rubinstein pan: "... a long and pretentious music lesson, apparently written by a frustrated and embittered amateur pianist who has tried in vain to dominate the difficult keyboard for the last sixty years...
...Maupassant's reputation among literary critics has steadily declined over the past 20 years, but his stories are still read by people who like tart, sharp character sketching, mildly risque situations and ingenious twist endings. Even critics who think his work contrived and superficial will mainly agree that no other writer save Chekhov has so enormously influenced the shape of the modern short story. De Maupassant's own life story, as told in Francis Steegmuller's breezy and readable biography, seems itself like one of his more mordant sketches-flashy, melodramatic and highly painful...
President Truman rushed to the defense of his nominee with a sharp letter to Subcommittee Chairman Ed Johnson of Colorado. "The powerful corporations subject to regulation by the commission," wrote the President, "have not been pleased with Mr. Olds." Colorado's tart old Democrat Johnson replied that subcommittee members were "shocked beyond description" by what Olds had once written. He had to admit that Olds as a witness was "very convincing. Like many crusaders for foreign ideologies, he has an attractive personality and is disarming to a very high degree...
...enormously successful Goldberg scripts have an apple-dumpling flavor-sugary, smooth as butter, pastry-thin in plot and heavily spiced with Bronxisms. What keeps this confection from cloying is Author Berg's tart recognition of human frailties and her blunt but understanding sense of humor. Besides writing, co-directing and bossing her show with an iron will, Gertrude Berg plays Molly, the Goldberg matriarch, with a full complement of shrugs, flutters, malapropisms and a passionate capacity for making something dramatic of the commonplace...
Back in the U.S. after three months in Europe as a self-styled "celluloid diplomat," Actor Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb filed a tart report: "From what I have seen, the only country in the world today that is safe from Communism is Russia...