Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreal and as graceful as the music it records and celebrates, The Great Waltz should charm most cinemaddicts, give opponents of swing their happiest moments of the season. Good sequence: Strauss, driving through the outskirts of his city at dawn, fusing the song of a bird, the notes of a shepherd's flute, the salute of a carriage horn into Tales from the Vienna Woods...
...mystical novel, He Sent Forth a Raven. A difficult, humorless book, it had nothing of the earthiness and quiet backwoods simplicity that made her first novel, The Time of Man, a best-seller and a critic's favorite. Instead of plain Kentucky hill folks, its characters were strange, unreal philosophers who explained at great length, in highly polished sentences, that they did not know what it was all about. It thus became that most embarrassing of literary performances- an extremely bad book by a distinguished writer-and critics, murmuring politely about Miss Roberts' style, looked the other...
...hours later, still yawing slightly in this unreal course of events, Tex had in his otherwise empty pockets the ownership papers to the 63-foot Winnetta, a 35-year-old schooner which in her $75,000 prime had once raced her sticks off on the Great Lakes, in more recent years had been the little-used property of fiftyish John S. Nairns, an inventor preoccupied with developing an airscrew for propelling ships. Inventor Nairns had sold the Winnetta's motor, but he still had the masts and sails in storage. Last week, lucky Tex scrubbed and buffed away...
...tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical conversations about woman's responsibilities, that it might have been written in an effort to check Britain's declining birth rate. Mother of three sons and a daughter, Enid Bagnold in private life is Lady Roderick Jones, wife of the chairman of Reuters, leading British news agency...
...surprising. In marrying Barbara Hutton, he married not only a rich chain store heiress but a character created and promulgated by modern U. S. journalism. If he had not realized it, millions of U. S. newspaper readers had. To them, Babs is a serial story, exciting, enviable, absurd, romantic, unreal...