Word: venomous
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...letters, published this week (Mendelssohn Letters, edited by G. Selden-Goth; Pantheon Books Inc., $4.50), prove that the light-hearted Felix was a curious target for so much Nazi venom. Hardly aware of his Jewish ancestry, Felix was a devout Christian. Some of his paragraphs were so passionately certain of the supremacy of German art that even the shrill Dr. Goebbels might have applauded. He wrote his family: "There is surely no art like our German one!" And to Goethe...
...brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers turn out also to be a nest for some surprisingly virulent vipers; and much of their venom is good for what's wrong with the American soul...
...told an admirer, "you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both." To another he said: "I have been thinking . . . what creature you most resemble and 'tis the Rattle Snake : I am sure you have its Attractions, I think you have its Venom, too, and all the world knows you have its Rattle " quot;If I kept a harem," he once mused, "the ladies should all wear linen gowns...
...quite accurate, casting and the general performance are psychologically effective. Goring's jocund tigerishness is embodied by a bulky Hungarian named Alexander Pope. Martin Kosleck does not look much like Joseph Goebbels but manages to capture Goebbels' sidelong glide, his peculiar blend of cynicism and venom. As the niece whom Hitler is supposed to have seduced and murdered, Poldy Dur is a suitably nubile stimulant to any psychopath...
Westbrook Pegler (174 papers, circ. 10,000,000) has a literary skill "beyond question, but very few of his methods are consistent with any attempt at honesty, either emotional or intellectual. . . . They make one curious to know whether [he] is not aware that venom is a more marketable commodity than reason. . . . His readers cherish his cholers. . . . His circulation has risen with his blood pressure." Praised: the Peglerizing of Racketeers Willie Bioff, George Scalise...