Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shakespeare's power of characterization and realism is strongest in his treatment of the lower classes, and it is here that the comedy draws its chief interest. The high-flown poetry of Part I is absent, and it is left up to the actors themselves to develop Shakespeare's rough drafts of the comic characters. This is the Brattle staff does with consummate skill...
Five Senators were absent. Each of the 91 who were present rose and voted...
When Warren Austin took his seat in Lake Success' Conference Room 2, he appeared glum, unsmiling, solitary. Noticeably absent was the usual press of colleagues around him. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, a hero last summer, sat apart stonily and unhappily...
...little too late to reflect that "a 'person' is a-man-plus-a-woman; with one or the other absent, there is no person." When Gaunt sees his sex-starved fellow men queueing up for the Miss America Doll (including choice of permeating perfumes), it seems to him that "she" is precisely the "mechanical lust-putty" that they have been hankering after all along-an erotic object chosen solely according to "criteria of eye and ear and nose and touch," devoid of all "personality . . . mind . . . ideas or a soul." It is inevitable, Gaunt thinks, that this lascivious dummy...
...Harvard Bs are worth As in many other colleges. How often we've heard that "It isn't everyone who can go to one of the Big Three." But when the Day of Judgement arrives (and it's got us but the neck already) we find these distinctions singularly absent. It's stimulating from a sanguinary point of view to note that we are considered fitting infantry-bait, and when we're called we'll all assume a suitably docile role; but the present lack of consistency, scholastic ranking-wise does deserve review. The dire need for armed manpower does...