Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a rather light voice which requires amplification, while Montalban, cast in the role of Chico the sewer-cleaner, is content to speak rather than sing his lyrics. Neither gets much help from the loudspeaker system, which has a tendency to squeal at inopportune moments. That defect, I am afraid, is the only thing which can be improved before Seventh Heaven opens on Broadway...
When booked by police, Frank grinned cockily; later, he was moody and scared. He said that he got the gun originally because he was afraid of damaging his fists in street fights. When he and another youth were moved from the station house, three waiting girls, about 14 years old, waved and cheered. "I'll always love you, Tarzan," one shrilled. Another one of the girls speculated that Frank might be sent to Warwick reform school. "Everybody we know is at Warwick," she pouted...
...Great Shakes. Lee graduated third in his class, out of 120. He went on to graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, eventually turned out a doctoral thesis called Variations in the Photoelectric Sensitivity of Platinum ("I'm afraid it didn't shake science at all"). Later at Caltech, he kept on with his arduous experiments ("I learned to hate liquid air," says Mrs. DuBridge), and at his post as assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, he started collaborating on a book ("It took the evenings of four years," says Mrs. DuBridge). The book, written with...
Best of all are the sympathetic insights into the personal problems of a reasonably steady, square-shooting, white-collar criminal (Lee Marvin). The night before the big job the poor fellow cannot sleep. Of course he is afraid, but he is also anxious to impress the boss (Stephen McNally) and get ahead in the underworld. He paces the floor in his hotel room until all hours, sniffing wretchedly at his "Benny" inhaler. This reminds him of a former wife, a party named Parmalee. Few marriages can have suffered so implacable a description as he gives that one, in seven well...
...some 400 stories, sketches and one-act plays, and the first version of Uncle Vanya. He believed that a writer had to be an irritated oyster before he would produce any pearls: "He who doesn't desire anything, doesn't hope for anything and isn't afraid of anything cannot be an artist." Damning his own as a literary generation of "lemonade" dispensers, Chekhov makes a telling diagnosis of Chekhov: "We paint life such as it is-that's all, there isn't any more . . . We have no politics, we don't believe...