Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tony Richardson's direction is skillfully contrived to keep Jimmy's negative qualities from becoming annoying. The performance is nothing if not athletic: Jimmy and his friend Cliff bounce and jump and wrestle with a disarmingly youthful abandon. Because the long speeches are unobtrusively broken up with movement, and because they are delivered brilliantly by Kenneth Haigh as Jimmy, there is never any suggestion that they are formal setpieces, or that Jimmy is a windbag. Mr. Haigh, who created the role in London and New York, is an emotional actor of considerable power, with an almost impish charm that takes...
...Hickey comes bearing a new gospel--"beat the game of life" by trying to attain the consoling dream. Failure is sure, but the dream will lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...
...Abandon Ship! Newcomb...
...that in four years in Algeria about 1,500 French civilians have been killed. More than 10,000 Moslems, men, women and children, have been massacred by the rebels-almost always by throat-cutting. What a hecatomb that country would know if we were stupid or cowardly enough to abandon...
...Stade noted that "there was strong sentiment in faculty meeting three or four years ago to abolish all attendance taking. We decided to abandon the policy in all courses except those with more than 50 per cent freshman enrollment...