Word: unkind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tattooed Sailor, on the other hand, is vintage humor. It is a hilarious one-man cartoon show by Rumanian-born André François who sounds an unmistakably original note in the cacophony of cartoon comedy. Cartoonist François humor is pointed, whimsical, completely loufoque and never unkind. His sailor hero has been tattooed into a state of ineffable euphoria, making him inseparable from his lovely Lilly and probably inadmissible to the U.S., but only on moral grounds...
...Petersen: "I didn't care much one way or another." Orr, who reckoned that he had paced off 40,000 miles in twelve years, had worn out two signs and two dozen pairs of shoes. Said he: "Everybody was always nice to me. Mr. Petersen never said an unkind word to me all the time I was there." In return, Orr had helped out Petersen by walking his Scottish terrier...
...same lines all day long. It's like saying: 'Pass the salad, pass the salad, pass the salad,' until it gets as dull to your ear as water dripping from a faucet." He also dislikes some of the character-diluting cutting that moviemakers do. One final unkind cut in Caesar: "During the battle-I've forgotten the lines-where Octavius says something like 'Man, what's happening?' and I say 'Cool, Dick...
Both Sir Alexander Fleming and the penicillin he discovered have recently come in for some unkind words. In Britain, critics complain that Fleming got a bigger share than he deserved of the credit for penicillin-that more should have gone to Sir Howard Florey and Dr. Ernst Chain, who first took it out of the lab and put it into a patient. In the U.S., doctors say that strains of bacteria resistant to penicillin are emerging everywhere, and that these may breed diseases from which penicillin can give no relief...
...world in his novel--that is another matter. To make such a denial stick would require some evidence and some argument, neither of which is offered. Your reviewer concludes patronizingly: "before he writes another novel, Mr. Morrison should get to know his students a lot better." Would it be unkind to suggest that before he writes another review of a novel, your reviewer should get to know a lot more about how to read fiction? S. M. Parrish Teaching Fellow in General Education and in English...