Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third story, "fadeout," does not approach the standard of competence of the rest of the fiction. The author utilizes flashbacks in a most depressing and trite manner, to show a man's supposed thoughts while he is dying of a war wound. Perhaps the last few words will give a clue to the category to which this short story belongs: "But the whirlpool began to suck him down again. It was so comfortable. So easy. Sinking back, fading...fading...
...concerns a lady on her way to marry a wealthy gentleman described by her father as being "as old as I am." However, before reaching the altar she encounters a storm and a naval officer and each has an equally turbulent effect upon her. Fortunately it's not as trite as all that, for Wendy Hiller portrays Joan Webster, the calculating wonan, with a poise and effectiveness that makes much out of not much of anything. Roger Livesey and the supporting east also contribute an occasional worthwhile moment and, with the assistance of Scottish folk dances and Gaclic singing...
...ruffians who share a bunk with a rich man's coddled son. In its few bright moments, the play catches the addled essence of adolescence; but it keeps encoring each good bit until it turns into a bore. Worse still, A Young Man's Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance - and pinches a textbook on sex. Thereafter, out of the mouth of babes comes a good deal for a certain kind of grownup to guffaw...
...along with keeping an undistorted view of foreign policy, is the issue of political freedom for Communists at home. To out law the Communist Party, denying its members freedom of political activity, would be to demonstrate the weaknesses the Communists charge us with. Until, to use the trite but indispensable phrase, a clear and present danger to our Nation can be shown, it is better to let Communists have their say; if our system is as sound as we believe, it can withstand any debate or criticism. Just as red-baiting is an admission of weakness and frustration at home...
...libretto, his 30-minute Telephone is little more than a trite gag. (An impatient lover tries to propose to his girl, is repeatedly interrupted when her phone rings; finally dashes to the corner drugstore, calls her up himself and makes the grade.) But the music is a briskly running satirical commentary that requires only a 13-piece orchestra to play it, and one soprano and one baritone to sing it. College and small-town music groups could tackle it easily-musically or financially...