Word: unkind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week, and there were grim predictions of an unholy traffic tangle, as 6,000,000 pieces of Saturday mail piled up in New York City post offices alone. Growled the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer: "Mr. Summerfield's sitdown strike has become unbecoming and disrespectful." Some political critics were unkind enough to recall the 1952 Republican platform, which indicated a return to twice-a-day home deliveries. The absence of the Saturday mailman was felt in every U.S. home-and no one knew better than the Congressmen that their constituents live in those homes...
...unfortunate effect which the more incomprehensible plays of the experimental schools may have on the art of the theater is to bring about confusion between the profound and the merely obscure. It would probably be unkind to suggest that either the audience at the Yale festival, which for the most part seemed to enjoy all the productions, or those people who selected the plays to be produced were suffering from such a form of confusion. But after three days the surfeit of obscurity did have a somewhat soporific ecect...
...Your Jan. 28 piece on my appearance on the Ralph Edwards' show was most friendly to me, and I am appreciative. But your reporter, or the man who interpreted my appearance, was both unkind and inaccurate. I knew every man who stepped on the stage, and I was genuinely glad to see him. Sure Ralph got some unexpected answers to some of his questions. But I thought 'that was what made This Is Your Life a great show. JACK DEMPSEY Hollywood...
Architect Eero Saarinen's description of the castle at Brandeis University as "Mexican Ivanhoe" [Nov. 19] reminds me of Sinclair Lewis' equally unkind characterization of modernist structures as "glass-fronted hen-houses." The castle (see cut) was designed by my father, Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of Middlesex University, to house the classrooms and laboratories of its School of Medicine. More befitting the medieval grandeur of our castle are the lines of Wordsworth...
...Suffering through their worst season ever, Notre Dame's Irish took an unkind cut from an unexpected quarter. Said ex-Coach Frank Leahy (whose teams were sometimes capable of feigning injuries as they were often capable of fighting for victory): "I watched the Iowa game . . . there was no fight, no will to win. What has happened to the old Notre Dame spirit?" The criticism heated up the temper of Notre Dame's young (28) Coach Terry Brennan, a protege of Leahy, and when he heard idle gossip that Leahy might be heading for a job as a Notre...