Word: unaffectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russians, a vigorous people, often carry on the most casual conversation as if they were describing the battle of Stalingrad. They sometimes sing as if they were possessed of seven devils and a Trotskyite. They often sing loudly in They Met in Moscow. But the picture's lyrical ebullience...
Most of the action shots showing the attack on New Britain were made the day after last Christmas. In the U.S. that was Christmas day, the audience is told, while it watches young fighting men hunch miserably in the drenching rain. Some of the commentary in Attack is mawkishly "American...
Although swank establishments like Manhattan's Stork Club were self-consciously unaffected, the real or fancied complaints of what the month-old tax was doing to the nation's cabarets last week swelled louder than a chorus of hot brasses. The American Guild of Variety Artists estimated that...
Going My Way is a sort of friendly contest between two diametrically different kinds of acting: Fitzgerald's, the immensely experienced, stage-wise sort which leaves mere virtuosity miles behind, and Crosby's, which is hardly acting at all, but merely the unaffected exploitation of an amiable personality...
Grave, Good Faces. Never again in our history did material and spiritual things fuse so completely to form a civilization. The dominant impression that the Album of American History conveys is that the foundations of the country were so solidly laid down that nothing can shake them. These ancestors lived...