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...contention that it seems "a farcical comedy of the seventies, not performed at the time, because it was too witty and too decent," but it has, too, a strong kinship with the insincere and trivial, but highly amusing, social comedies of the Restoration. Altogether, it is a genial, if shallow exposition of Wilde's philosophy, a philosophy in which literature is governed by style and not ideas, and life by taste rather than ideals...
...Billion Dollar Baby" purports to be a musical about the fabulous twenties. As a cynical ballyhoo of all that is shallow in the Jazz Age, it contains some outstanding ballet by Jerome Robbins, danced by Joan McCracken, some interesting if not catchy music by Morton Gould, and a negligible book. But it treats neither the twenties nor the audience the way they should be treated...
...Lost Generation, Greenwich Village, money, alcohol, sex, money, and Crash! You can throw F. Scott Fitzgerald in there somewhere, too. "Billion Dollar Baby" ignores the interesting things about the Jazz Age, and laughs condescendingly, at the length of ladies' skirts, at dance marathons, at speakeasies, and at all the shallow surface of a frenzied...
Under the Flagpole. On one of the islands, in front of the long, white Colonial clubhouse, the picnicking and politicking began at once. On the greensward facing a shallow bay was a long tent-at one end a beer and bourbon bar, at the other end a food bar (crabmeat, ham, potato salad and a barrel of oysters). Harry Truman, glass in hand, sat under a flagpole and chatted, called out many a first name...
Subject of countless and traditional stories, some apocryphal and some unfit for publication, Professor Warren's violent temper caused him at one time to be called "Ferdinand." He once told a student, "You're in very shallow water, but you're sinking fast...