Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gordon has twice before proved she could do. It requires both daring and discretion; the knowledge of one's boundaries is essential for its success. But most of all, the playwright needs an icon with more general appeal than Miss Gordon. She is a fine actress, very feminine and tender. She has a funny little was of running up the musical scale when she speaks, letting her voice crack, gently, half the way up. But as the great and brilliant actress who can't "go on" when her acting-mate dies, Miss Gordon is as incredible and uninteresting...
...totally efficient, totally soulless Utopia. This defense of the unreconstructed individual, who refuses to run with the mob, is a central theme in much of Huxley's writing, and it spills all over his latest novel. But where Brave New World was a neat stiletto jab into the tender hide of the reforming perfectionists, Ape and Essence, a poorer novel, is a rather crude bludgeon indiscriminately aimed at all men's thick skulls...
...pound more for them . . . You pay $1 to $1.10 a pound for center cuts of ham because you won't buy the end cuts that I am glad to trim up for you for 57 to 69? a pound. They are just as tender, have as much flavor, and are actually leaner (after I have trimmed them), but your husband makes too much money for you to use them . . . A chuck roast can be cooked just as tender and is every bit as flavorful as a rump or loin tip, though it won't slice as pretty...
Chatting in her column about one thing & another, Eleanor Roosevelt reminisced about the "Hoover depression," a phrase minted by the Democrats, widely circulated by her husband, and used as legal tender by a whole generation. Wrote she: "If only we can avoid a repetition of the depression that culminated in Mr. Hoover's administration, we will be very fortunate. This depression, of course, had nothing to do with President Hoover's policies, but was the result of after-war activities by certain groups...
...huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull of Deborah Kerr and of James Mason, who, at this tender stage of his career, seems never to have heard of sadism. The only possible reason for seeing it is the work of Robert Newton, an excellent actor who can put amazing variety and intensity of meaning into the oft-repeated dissyllable...