Word: kittenish
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...exposed as a fraudulent oldster and, somewhat irrationally, the other inmates turn against him. Eventually, of course, the old folks re-embrace their benefactor, and Belvedere ends in a damp rush of sentimentality that finds the nurse and preacher in each other's arms, the oldsters acting kittenish again, and Webb walking jauntily off into the sunset...
...life as a combination assistant and disciple was no bed of roses, and his memoir of his patron is, perhaps unwittingly, a murderous indictment of a spoiled and kittenish aesthete. Gathorne-Hardy was allowed plenty of free time, but Smith often made his life miserable with his whims and pouts, especially during his intermittent bouts of melancholia, which he called his "interlunaries." And his penchant for repeating anecdotes would drive Gathorne-Hardy to otherwise unmotivated trips to the washroom...
...tackle the Concerto in D Minor of Mozart, a composer whose clear textures give pianists little chance to hide blunders in taste or technique. Pianist Firkusny had nothing to hide: his technique was clean; his style, unlike that of many another Mozart player, was neither cold, coy nor kittenish. At week's end, on his 38th birthday, he showed an audience in Hunter College's recital hall his fluency and force in other styles: Beethoven, Debussy, Czech Composer Jan Dussek, Stravinsky, and the poetic Schumann's C Major Fantasia, which he has made his own (and recorded...
...Rolf Gerard's impressive, simple sets. Sir Cedric Hardwicke (plagued by laryngitis on opening night) plays his role with a slow gravity better suited to Caesar than to Shaw, but still with real authority and understanding. European-born Lilli Palmer suits both Cleopatra and Shaw. She is as kittenish as Shaw's Cleopatras always are, as physically alluring as they always should...
Lounging, in gaudy, relaxing clothes, in lawn chairs under the palms with the President at their center, the "Palm Tree Cabinet" debated the best ways to press for next year's stiff Fair Deal agenda. There seemed to be plenty of time for kittenish lightheartedness in the soft warmth of the Florida Keys. One day, for example, Congressional Liaison Man Joseph Feeney was roused from a nap in the sun by a dash of cold water. Above him, grinning broadly, stood the President of the U.S., holding two empty water tumblers...