Word: unkindnesses
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...have been systematically encouraged to act as Communist spies and informers upon nonParty adults, were told that they will receive radio lectures on their new parental rights & duties. Lest all this go to the heads of Russian parents, they were warned not to start thrashing disrespectful, disobedient or unkind offspring...
Alice Queenie Puddifoot is a masseuse with a shop in London's Albemarle Street. Lately unkind individuals complained to the London County Council that Miss Puddifoot was no fit person to be in the massage business, demanded that her license be revoked. Miss Puddifoot was vindicated, her license renewed. But most London newspapers covering the hearing went to press with only the racy testimony of the complainants. Alice Puddifoot sued eight of the papers for libel. U. S. editors, reading the results of the trial last week, were bug-eyed with amazement at the manner in which British courts...
Personal satire is almost absent, though there is a terse and unkind quatrain about Ernest Hemingway, which is at the same time a parody of Longfellow's "Psalm of Life." Nor has Cummings forgotten his nursery rhymes...
Rumor has been unkind to this play for it has said that it is a good play. If you want to enjoy "The Distaff Side" don't go to it with that misapprehension--it's a nice play and Dame Sybil Thorndike must be a very nice woman. It's a reassuring play for it demonstrates with properly repressed vigor that the home is the thing, that women make the home, and therefore women are the thing. It has many nice women in it the grandmother is gruff and self-centered but an fond she is really nice. The middle...
...does not want the things which he has achieved; he merely wants to achieve them and call them his. His blinding ambitions has dehumanized him so utterly that he no longer is a feeling, loving human, but a grasping, cruel robot, who sweeps everything before him. He is not unkind or inconsiderate to those whom he has succeeded in dominating, for they no longer mean anything to him. He drives onward to a goal which he does not know until finally he is destroyed by the shattered roots of his past, which rise again and make him feel the aimlessness...