Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rarely speaks out any more, stood solemnly before the House, shaking his bald dome and searching for the right words. "I fear," he said, "I am speaking to minds that are closed." It is only reasonable, he pleaded, to give a far-reaching legislative idea a fair trial. Though popular Sam Rayburn has immense prestige, the Congressmen listened coldly. Seeing them unmoved, Sam made a brazen appeal to the patronage instinct: "Let me say to you, my Democratic friends, that I found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along the best who go along...
Catholic youths, said the Cardinal, had fought for the U.S. "Their broken bodies on blood-soaked foreign fields were grim and tragic testimony to this fact." Would Mrs. Roosevelt deny equality to those Catholic boys? "Now my case is closed," concluded the Cardinal. And even though Mrs. Roosevelt might "attack" him again, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge you . . . Your record of anti-Catholicism stands for all to see . . . documents of discrimination unworthy of an American mother...
Inside Lights. Subbing for the first-string music critic, Cardus once heard a Russian tenor sing Nekrasov's The Wanderer. Wrote Cardus: "At the passage where we hear the piteous lamentation of the starving peasant, [his] face was as though a light had been turned down inside; at the cry 'Cold! Cold!' the cheeks . . . became sunken; the body contracted as though intensely chilled, the hands clenched, and, surely, the voice itself was pinched ... An eloquent animation, almost sculptural...
...Though he would rather write about batons than bats, Cardus thinks that cricket expresses, in microcosm, the whole English character. "If everything else in this nation of ours were lost but cricket," he writes, "it would be possible to reconstruct [from it] all the eternal Englishness which has gone to the establishment of [the] Constitution and the laws...
...nothing, called themselves the "lost generation." The story of the movie is largely a story of bad casting. In the role of Gatsby, which calls for extraordinary warmth and a wide range of mood, Alan Ladd looks about as comfortable as a gunman at a garden party. Betty Field, though she gives a finished performance as the poor little rich girl Gatsby loves, is subtly wrong for the part. The players who come closest to Fitzgerald's lost souls are Howard da Silva and Shelley Winters as a cuckold and his wayward wife...