Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest distinction is his ability to write long, furious, bitterly hilarious monologues, using common speech in a new and corrosively expressive manner. In Nigel Kneale's screenplay, with "additional dialogue" by Mr. Osborne, the brillant, obscene rhapsodies that lit up the play have been ruthlessly cropped, in an attempt to meet the demands of what is always said to be a "visual medium," and nothing can compensate for this loss...
From the time when the faculty adopted it a decade ago, General Education has been peculiarly vulnerable to pressures from every department which wished to make concentration easier or more thorough. The English department's current attempt to annex Humanities 6 is the latest case in an almost unending war between the interdepartmental nature of General Education and the highly departmentalized form of Harvard College...
DEPILATORIES. "A number of shots of women's legs after successful application of a depilatory seemed more an attempt to arouse the sensual attentions of the television viewer than a demonstration of the efficacy of the product...
...futile hope of the husband's promotion. The characters of the children are drawn with some subtlety; the boy's awkwardness and introspection are developed effectively, as are the main problems of the story--the uselessness of the parents' lives, and the quietly savage intensity of the boy's attempt to escape the "mortality" of his parents' existence. The main difficulty with The Flavour of Mortality is a jerkiness of structure, a certain abruptness in exposition, which is occasionally annoying, but which does not obscure the formidable talent beneath...
...think the concept of the national state has become so dangerously anachronistic that the U.S. should take the risks involved in surrendering some of her sovereignty, in a serious attempt at achieving a strong international federation or world government...