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...Baldwin (Jean Arthur) takes a job as secretary to Fred Gilbert (George Brent), carrot-nibbling editor of a health magazine. When she falls in love with Gilbert, Carol decides to humanize him. He proves the efficacy of her humanizing by falling in love, not with her but with her dullest pupil, Maizie (Dorothea Kent). Getting this situation straightened out involves some of the most uneven comedy dialog of the season. Sample, when Maizie is angling for a job on Body & Brain: "I can hear my mother say take good care of your body, Maizie, because...
...many years. Any qualified person will tell you, moreover, that in the field of American literature Mr. De Voto's ability can be equalled only with difficulty. I cannot believe that Harvard does not know what everyone knows . . . He actually made his students think. He made the dullest of them think. The dullest of them hereby testifies that De Voto was the only man he studied under who ever did succeed in making him think. His students felt for him afterwards the incommunicable affection they reserve for a great--I pick out the adjective, I use it deliberately--a great...
...elusive quality that critics call solidity: elaborate documentation on the social background, careful discussion of daily family battles, naturalistic reporting on the details of clothing, finances, property. True to this pattern to the point of tedium. The Brothers Ashkenazi resembles a Polish Forsyte Saga packed into one volume, is dullest in its accounts of its heroes, most interesting in its pictures of the growth of the industrial city of Lodz that flourished before the War, declined after...
TIME is my favorite magazine. It puts life and color into the dullest news topics. Its rapier thrusts puncture shams, deflate politicians; it illuminates the darkest corners of the world with its wit and wisdom. But that is not what I started out to say. In a review of the recent Kentucky Derby [TIME, May 11], which you generously and correctly described as "the nation's greatest horse race," you state that hundreds of celebrities and 70,000 other enthusiasts "made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs...
...make things mentally easy for even the dullest, the official organ of Communist Youth, the Komsomolskaya Pravda, carried an arresting account of doings on New Year's Eve in one of Moscow's district locals of the Young Communists. Just as Grandfather Frost began handing out presents to Red moppets, a Red youth interrupted the festivities by shouting, "Stop! Comrades, you are making a terrible ideological mistake. Trees in the Communist society are meant for such serious use as the building of homes for the proletariat. Comrades, I order you to go home! Otherwise the whole meaning...