Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bertolt Brecht had a touching Teutonic faith in the power of the blow to instruct. Almost all his dramas are displays of belligerent didacticism. The stage was his prize ring. The audience was his sparring partner. There he was-"poor B.B.," as he always liked to think of himself-lashing out with a bruising ideological left to the midriff, jolting the playgoer with some brisk truism...
...catch only a glimpse of a tiny courtyard and-again-the wall. The door of his room stands open, so. that the ever-present guard at the gate can see him at all times. For five months of the year, the room is chilled by icy winds that blow down on Peking from Siberia. For another five months, fanless, Grey swelters under heat and humidity blown in from the Pacific. And always, the guard just stares, never speaks...
...have said "turn the other cheek" is only to have said that you will let no man's action towards you determine your action towards him. You need only to refuse to let his action determine your response. You need only to refuse to respond to his blow with an attack of your own. You need only to refuse to answer ultimatum with ultimatum. At one point in Paine Hall Dean Glimp acted as a free man. He said, "The fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this." The dean...
...waiting room, things are worse. People sneeze continually, blow their noses, and cough. One student said he counted 11 sneezes in one minute. He added that he called four girls at Wellesley, trying to get a date for Friday. "Two of them were in the infirmary, one was just out, and the last had just been turned away," he reported...
...COURSE, as the show reminds us, Buck-minster Fuller did get his Plexiglas and steel dome built at Expo. For the Osaka fair Yutaka Murata plans a blow-up amphitheatre of pneumatic PVC tubes, shaped like a locus of horseshoes. Other inflatables pictured include a dome and a space-capsule-shaped weekend house...