Word: banishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maitland's tormented hallucination, and the play's device, that he is in a spectral dock on trial on a self-accusing charge-that his life has become an obscenity. The inner motion of this drama is the ritual of exorcism; Maitland wants to banish the voracious demons of his mind and conscience. But his witnesses are all mirror images of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, long-suffering clerks are walking legal briefs drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife is Maitland's petition...
...filial relationship has been reversed. As happens in individual families, too, the offspring has taken over the role of parent. After World War II, it was America that gave Europe food, shelter, the sheer hope of survival. Through patterns of aid and alliance, the U.S. also tried to help banish Europe's ancient, tragic-and sometimes childish-quarrels...
Tolen has The Knack. With a tap on his snare drum, a fillip of his hair, or an rpm of his white cycle he can banish the serneity of any normal giri and transform her into a quivering mass of ungovernable desire. Colin wants to get The knack. He's just a mild-mannered, horny school-teacher who'd be satisfied with one of Tolen's girls. So when Nancy arrives, Colin decides to make his feeble play, with some help from Tom, a crazy Irishman who must paint everything white. Good destroys evil, Colin gets Nancy, and Tolen loses...
...those who take three or four at a noisy cocktail party, know some of the basic facts. Alcohol is a relaxant (it appears to act as a stimulant only because it masks fatigue); and because it relaxes first the "most civilized" functions of the brain, it tends to banish worry. It makes people more tolerant of each other's foibles. It loosens tongues, and may dissolve some legal and moral restraints. But Dr. Chafetz is chary of the widely held belief that men or women do unacceptable things merely because they are under the influence. "The virgin who succumbs...
...hatters have added some crucial undercover work. To give the scarf a lift and banish the babushka look, milliners have concocted a hatlike frame of stiff net. Over the frame goes a kerchief, with the ends either knotted at the nape of the neck or softly folded in front. The result: the scarf hat, a runaway bestseller that can safely be placed on freshly set hair and is often well worth wearing for its own stylish sake...