Word: afterthought
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...play, Touch and Go, is an afterthought and a qualification of the novel, Women in Love, Lawrence's denunciation of England's industrial aristocracy. Three of the plays, echoing his autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers, are concerned with poor middle-of-England mining families in which domineering mothers are locked in love-hate relationships with brutish husbands or acquiescent sons. Two plays are mild-mannered comedies in which Lawrence woodenly twits denatured civilization and desexualized man. There is even one play, based on the Biblical David, which fuzzily explores Lawrence's pseudoreligious cult of the demi-divine...
...National Invitation Tournament in Manhattan, the route to the top was more predictable. After edging Army, top-seeded Brigham Young University found itself in the final with the very upsetting Violets of New York University. N.Y.U. had been invited almost as an afterthought and had gratefully beaten every team it faced. But the streak could not go all the way, even when Brigham Young's All-America Dick Nemelka got sidelined by foul trouble. Forward Gary Hill filled the gap left by Nemelka by scoring 21 points, 13 more than his season average. The whole Brigham Young team played...
...this practice has been less hampering to U.S. diplomacy than might have been expected. Over the years, the Senate has considered some 1,500 treaties, rejected or refused to go along with the President in only about one out of ten. On occasion, senatorial amendments have been recognized in afterthought as improvements...
...Opera has established itself as the nation's leading champion of contemporary opera. Of the 116 productions it has staged over the years, 60 have been 20th century works, including 26 U.S. and world premieres. Quite a record for a company that was founded as something of an afterthought. Back in 1942, when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine was unable to pay the taxes on its Mecca Temple, Fiorello La Guardia foreclosed. The place was an unsalable white elephant, a dome-topped edifice built in 1925 and styled in Turkish-bath rococo...
...marry because she was pregnant is now a bored little rich bitch, played by Jean Simmons with just enough sting to paralyze a mate but not quite enough to kill the pain. "It isn't what you expected, is it?" she says knowingly, then as an idle, needling afterthought: "Have you ever had a colored girl?" Joe answers no to both questions. What he's got is a shaky executive job at his father-in-law's wool factory in Yorkshire. His luxurious home is in his wife's name, he drives a company...