Word: pleasingness
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The effect of atonality (or as Schonberg preferred to call it, "pantonality") is not particularly pleasing to the ear. The absence of all conventional melody, harmony, rhythm, and direction in the piece leaves a half hour of tenseness and doubts which are never fully resolved. And the vacillating, rhapsodic themes...
4. As a collection of performances, it is a good bit above the average. Granite-faced Dana Andrews does all right when the part gives him a chance; Dorothy McGuire is quite pleasing when not embroidered with her sickly-sweet smile; Peggy Dow is handicapped by bad writing of her...
The Army game was the pivot. From then on, the varsity played exciting, if not razzle-dazzle football. This was one of the encouraging things the 1951 squad did for Harvard football. It came up from fiat on its back to put on hard-played, crowd-pleasing shows the rest...
Stewart Chaney had dressed up the play with two colorful and pleasing sets depicting the tower of the Empire State Building and the apartment in which most of the action occurs. Director Otto Preminger's staging is on the whole adroit; it may may be picayune to point out that...
Margaret plays a sixteen year old version of Jeanne D'Arc who cannot decide whether to enter a convent, thus pleasing one half of her family, or stay out and please the other half. By the end of the first act last Monday, the audience seemed in favor of the...