Word: windedness
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Speaking to the American Bar Association in Chicago, Joseph N. Welch, former special counsel for the Army in its squabble with Senator Joseph McCarthy, reflected on his depressing sojourn in Washington. "The two simple emotions I observed at the capital were fear and hate, fanned to a white heat," said...
The Man That Got Away (Fran Warren; M-G-M). A torchy ballad by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin (from the film A Star Is Born). A bit too long-winded to be a fast hit.
The show is a period piece with mild historical warrant: it tells of a French ballet troupe which came to New York around 1870, was burned out of the Academy of Music while still in rehearsal, and joined forces with a melodrama rehearsing at Niblo's Garden. Though presumably...
Adlai Stevenson sat restlessly through a long-winded introduction of himself at an independent voters' dinner in Chicago. When the glowing rhetoric finally ended, Stevenson rose and thanked his introducer: "I am not a candidate for anything at the moment, but all the same, I hope you don'...
Working Bodies. Most of the repertory that the New York company carries in its theater trunks is something new and different in ballet. It is danced in modern "classic" style, with clean-cut silhouettes and unwasted movements. It often dares to use "classical" scores by Mozart and Bach. But it...