Word: unkind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were kind and her hands were gentle as she fed the boys and undressed them for bed. Grandfather frowned on play and thought the boys should learn to work. "When I was their age . . ." he often used to begin. Grandmother knew that Grandfather didn't mean to be unkind, but often he seemed rough because, as he had once admitted to her helplessly, "I can't think of anything to say to them...
Listener's Digest is subtitled "The exciting new short cut to great music." The cut is not only short but unkind: the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (in a ragged performance by the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli) runs a mere three minutes-minus the development section, where, in effect, the composer explains what his music is about. Overall cut: from 32 minutes to 14. Other emasculated masterpieces: Franck's D Minor Symphony (38 to 14), Brahms's First Symphony (38 to 15), Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto...
...native Kentuckian . . . I was puzzled with "Hot as hackydam" and " 'whittledycut' -which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race." Would it be unkind to suggest that such expressions may have been used by infiltrators of the Pennyroyal . . . or that your correspondent had been investigating that special flavor the limestone imparts to the bourbon...
Since then the South has become a land of promise. States are spending taxpayers' money to attract Northern capital. The welcome mat is out and the hand of friendship extended-but not by Senator Johnston." Then the paper took unkind notice of Johnston's New and Fair Deal tendencies and his loud support of Adlai Stevenson. Said the editorial: "There was another term of abuse in Reconstruction. It was 'scalawag,' meaning a Southerner who played along with Washington policies then oppressing the South." -Still, Olin Johnston had his way in the end. In Geneva, still unconfirmed...
...film leans over backward to avoid any suggestion of spectacle, and there are no panoramic shots of Rome, no overblown crowd scenes, no technicolor sunsets to draw attention from beauty of language and intensity of feeling. Although the scenario discards some minor scenes, few of the cuts are unkind, and the film happily needs credit no-one with "additional dialogue." There is no pretentious introduction to ease the audience into Shakespeare, and with Brando excellent as Antony, there is no desperate bid for box-office appeal in the casting. Essentially, what producer John Houseman and director Joseph Mankiewicz have done...