Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WITH the recent deaths of Lytton Strachey and Gamaliel Bradford, Andre Maurois remains as the most prominent living biographer. (Apologies to Mr. Philip Guedalla who, fortunately or unfortunately, has not been accorded notice equal to Mr. Maurois). The members of this trio had much in common: they were the leaders...
It is with the less-known figures that Mr. Bradford is most successful. Here the narrative details he supplies are fresher and more interesting, and he is well able to reveal an enigma at least where he cannot explain it. Discussing Talleyrand and Fenelon, two men strikingly similar in temperament...
Short in physical stature, Mr. Baker does not look the politician, but the squareness and determination of his jaw indicates the temperament of a fighter and a leader. The White House could not find a better occupant when the vacancy sign hangs out next March.
The first episode is perhaps the best. Here Mr. Kirstein is really penetrating. The scene is at school where Roger meets a mystical, imaginative boy, Andy, who comes to have a great influence over him. Finally, through a weird kind of fear he makes Roger completely subservient to him. Despite...
The gayest of all gay musical films has come again to the Fine Arts Theatre. This German operetta, with its inexpensive sets, its modest casting, its imperfect sound-recording, carries exuberance and spontaneity unknown to Hollywood. American films may be suaver, better sung, more pretentious, but charm evades them. For...