Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first person Julian meets is a butler named Butler (John Heffernan), who is not a butler. The first thing he sees is a scale model of the chateau, perfect in every exterior and interior detail. This permits clever wordplay on the ambiguity of appearance v. reality, but its blunt literalism sadly lacks the intellectual subtleties that Pirandello so often brought to the same theme. Julian meets Miss Alice (Irene Worth) and at the end of Act II is seduced by her. The seduction scene owes a discernible if unintentional debt to Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn...
...dominate it he did. By words and gestures, by pleas and orders. By speeches noble and plainly blunt. By exasperated outbursts and munificent tributes. By intuitive insights and the blueprints of planners...
...greatest challenge to the churches-one that knows no national borders-is secularization. Dutch Theologian Albert van den Heuvel, head of the World Council of Churches' Youth Department, defines the term as "the process of ever-growing independence from any transcendent control." What it amounts to, in the blunt phrase of Friedrich Nietzsche, is "God is dead...
...position. "We are edited solely for the women in the 18-to-34 age group," insisted Advertising Director Arthur Stein, himself a superannuated 52. "If we had some way to tell them to go away and stop reading the magazine after that, we would do it." With these blunt words, Redbook Editor Robert Stein, 40, and no kin to Arthur, expressed full agreement. While Adman Stein is straightforwardly encouraging older readers to take it on the lam, Editor Stein says he is taking a subtler tack: he is running large amounts of fiction on the theory that elderly females...
Portuguese anger is mild compared to that of some right-wing Hindu groups, which look upon the congress as a colonialist plot to destroy the culture of India. There are blunt posters on the streets of Bombay warning that "Christianity is a danger to Hinduism." Indian officials minimized the threat to the Pope, but put a number of Hindu fanatics in protective custody and strengthened the 16,000-man Bombay police force with 3,000 troops from the Maharashtra state police...