Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inner Conceit. In 1929, Hammerstein was divorced from his first wife and married mahogany-haired Dorothy Blanchard, daughter of an Australian sea captain. With her he answered a syncopated summons from Hollywood. He arrived on the Coast amidst expectant huzzahs. But soon he was weighed in Hollywood's inexplicable scales, and found wanting. One M-G-Mogul passed the verdict around commissaries and conference rooms: "Oscar is a very dear friend of mine, but he can't write...
...dozen musicals between 1930 and 1942, but few were hits. He suffered the lean years stoically. In 1940 he bought, as a sort of refuge, a farm near Doylestown, Pa. People said that Oscar Hammerstein was through; he claims that he was kept going by a "certain inner conceit...
...this militaristic old man letting himself be carried away with conceit? . . . Honest people throughout the world did not believe that militant reaction would raise its arm against the U.N. so soon. It is this sinister duty that has been taken on his own shoulders by the Shylock of Wall Street, George C. Marshall...
...usual, readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County...
...Rodzinski's musical sterility (to continue a conceit begun by Rodzinski when he described Stokowski's conducting as "sexual") has time & again made the normally oppressive U.S. Rubber Co.'s "Science Talks" over the air seem the height of esthetic cultivation by comparison. Thus my joy was unbounded when Rodzinski "resigned." This joy was snuffed out, however, by the announcement that he would pilot the Chicago Symphony next season...