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...Treasury officials and members of the Cabinet, and Britain takes care that Cabinet secrets shall not leak out accidentally. Far from the least important official in Whitehall is a character known as the Confidential Waste Man. A trusted secret service employe, it is his duty to empty every Government trash-basket in Whitehall, burn the contents himself...
...Queen, looking very sour for such a sunny spring morning, came trundling across the lawn and stopped under the peach-tree, scowling down at Alice. She looked at the little green book in the grass and snorted, "Child, what trash are you reading...
...real modernists who has been able to write effective theatre music, subduing atonality and the twelve-tone scale to a truly urgent feeling. Critics were unable to agree on Lulu's worth last week. Olin Downes of the New York Times pronounced it "involved trash," while Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune went the whole hog in the other direction by saying: "The layman, if he can accustom himself to a doubtless indisposing idiom, will find in it a lacerating beauty, a piercing expressiveness often overwhelming which reveals Berg for what he is: a poet, a man of tormenting...
...pored over many a musty tome. Among our findings was an apocryphal edition of Gaius Suctonins Tranquillus' "Lives of the Twelve Caesars". There were portions of it where the nosy grandfather of all the columnists had become sillier than ever. To save his face generous moderns have cut his trash. But for the moment we resented our present-day cult of the important, and we reveled in triviala...
...Harmony Lane," the other picture, is a piece of sentimental trash. Supposedly concerning the life of Stephen Foster, this picture should receive applause only from the most susceptible tearjerker addicts. Studded with an incompetent cast headed by Douglass Montgomery and Evelyn Venable, directed with incredible stupidity, and put together like a patchwork quilt, the movie was almost enough to make this Spartan reviewer join the chorus of groans coming from some neighbors in the aisle. Even Foster's magnificent folk-songs--and this is the crowning infamy--were rendered wretchedly. After seeing "Harmony Lane," even "Shipmates Forever" seemed to approach...