Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will still be a few weeks before Bernadine opens in New York, if it ever gets there, and I am sure that Miss Chase will do some rewriting. But it will be a difficult job; her situations are trite and her characters too stereotyped. With only a few amusing by the way scenes to work with, she will have to virtually remake Bernadine, if it is to enjoy any thing near a successful...
...subjects which seem to be fashionable these days--the decaying South and oppressed Africa--have considerable merit. The first, Told About One Spring, by Edward Cumming, is a first-person narrative which is well-paced and smooth throughout, with character and plot development fully integrated. The subject is a trite one--the love affair of a schoolboy and an older woman--and there are no original embellishments to distinguish this story from myriad other chronicles of the Modern South. But as an exercise in getting a series of messy situations and emotions down on paper with maximum clarity, the story...
...inadequately the situations of a German prisoner of war and the young man whom he conks on the head while making his escape. The flashbacks which outline the German's development are very awkwardly handled, and the other fellow is surrounded with a hastily-contrived context that is trite and unconvincing. Mr. Ferber also goes in for interpretation and explicit mood-setting, but in spite of these devices, his story seems too short for the material he tries to put into...
...lend a ceremony any non-partisan flavor, especially when he arrives amid a welter of handouts, Taft buttons, and all the other sundries of campaigning. The Young Republicans did not help much by advertising the celebration as a Taft question-and-answer program either. Even the speeches, so trite and innocent on the surface, were hardly unblemished paeans on behalf of patriotism...
...music historian and former organist and choirmaster of the University, concluded that there is a vast repertoire of great sacred music. However, he says that lack of criticism has allowed a quantity of trite and inappropriate music to get into the service...