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To coward
noun
A person who lacks courage.
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What happened to Coward was the Sixties.
But Churchill had a mixed response to Coward as intermediary.
The same grave intensity is misapplied to Coward.
He switches to Coward again: "Yes, of course it is!
But one thing or another led to "Rough Crossing," which critics have compared to Coward.
He comes back to Coward, who really gets it in the neck second time around: "overstated, sentimental. . .
We also get letters to Coward, many of them as entertaining as the recipient's, for he corresponded with some of the mightiest pens in literature and show business.
Of particular interest is "A Song at Twilight," whose central character (according to Coward) was inspired both by Max Beerbohm and W. Somerset Maugham.
According to Coward, they were Ivor's profile and his own wit – which reinforces my theory about his built-in sense of superiority.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center promises to display both sense and nonsense about the composer, director and playwright at a new exhibition devoted to Coward that is scheduled for next spring.
There's a smugness to Coward, even a meanness, which in "Design for Living," say, or "Private Lives," we condone for two reasons: first because the privileged club is so irresistibly entertaining, and second because we're implicitly included in the membership.
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