Word: tenderness
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This tendency, not confined to Hollywood, old in American life, is encouraged by a plot which has a flavoring of The Green Pastures fantasy, but little real resemblance to that subtle and tender masterpiece. The story takes Little Joe Jackson ("Rochester") and his wife Petunia (Ethel Waters) through Joe's moral predicaments, including a nightclub scorcher named Georgia Brown (Lena Horne), on his way to a needle's-eye squeeze into heaven. M.G.M. adds insult to insensitivity by issuing a pretentious screen-print foreword of legend sources and race dreams: "The folklore of America has origins...
...maestros, seldom bothers to beat time-he seems able to infect musicians with the desired momentum. But always he is about the subtle business of communicating to the orchestra, by the contortions of his face and form, his own profound knowledge of the score, his emotional temperature, from the tender to the explosive, and his exquisite musical taste. Beecham is widely regarded among musicians as an unparalleled interpreter of Mozart and Haydn in particular, and as a conductor, in general, of the order of Toscanini and Koussevitzky...
...people are more than pleasure-loving. We also have qualities of heroic strength-determination-will to struggle-faith in our destiny. We are possessed of a fierce driving power-optimistic, young, rough and ready-and I am convinced that our mechanistic age has not destroyed an appreciation of more tender moods." Any one that heard the symphony would have to admit that those words apply extremely well to the music, I am sure, and if the above quotation is an "elaborate pronouncement," then I am a marimba...
...catalogue writers did not let them down. W. Atlee Burpee Co. had an Improved Super Snowball Cauliflower, a Tender Pod Bush Bean that would make a mummy drool: ". . . surpasses all others in quality, tenderness, succulence and flavor. . . . The pods are 4½ to 5 inches long, thick, round in cross section, smooth, deep dark green in color, curving slightly, with long and distinctively curved tips. . . ." Peter Henderson & Co. had a Coreless Carrot whose "beautiful appearance alone wins favor for it wherever grown. ... Its coreless, rich red-orange flesh possesses a sweet, melting tenderness that appeals even to those who otherwise...
...watched her heel over in a spreading pool of oil after the bombs burst. A searchlight beam burst from the shore, probed high in the sky. A few A.A. guns chattered. But the Fortress was clean away. Climbing to 5,000, she dropped her last bombs on a seaplane tender in the harbor's heart and streaked for home, while her crew made to one another the circle with thumb and third finger which means: "It's good...