Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Domestic Service. The letter, which had been gathering signatures for weeks, bore 50 of the top names among today's artists, collectors, critics and art professors.* In hurt tones, it quoted a series of excerpts from Canaday's columns. He had written, for example, that "the bulk of abstract art in America has followed the course of least resistance and quickest profit," that it "allows exceptional tolerance for incompetence and deception," and that "critics and educators have been hoist with their own petard, sold down the river. We have been had." He said that abstract expressionism...
...Seventh Day. On the morning of his seventh day at sea, Rafael suddenly saw a slick, 30-ft. Chris Craft shoot past. Though Rafael did not know it, the Gulf Stream had borne him north to within three miles of Miami Beach. Minutes later, the Coast Guard cutter Papaw bore down upon him, responding to a radio message from the Chris Craft...
...abortion, the incomparable spiv who is closer to the heart of modern England than anything Kipling had in mind, move through Author Lessing's narrative like pulsing presences. This is the kind of slice-of-life book that can get to be, and almost always is, a bore at about Chapter 2. What saves it for Author Lessing and the reader is the artlessness that conceals art, the conversational pace that never flags, and above all the refusal to be surprised by anything the English creature does in its own habitat...
...Edgeworth's good Jews, like that of the other apologies in English literature--Dickens' Riah, DuMaurier's Leah, and Trollope's Trendelssohn--is explained by Rosenberg: "The chief reason . . . is that [the good Jew] has been almost consistently a product of far too obvious and explicit ulterior motives. He bore from the first the pale cast of after-thought. Given the convention, the authors who kept the Jew-villain in circulation created their man with a good deal of spontaneity. The Jew-villain might not be a realistic figure; but within the canons of comedy and melodrama he could give...
That's John. Unlike U-2 Pilot Powers, who began talking almost from the moment of his capture, Olmstead and McKone bore their imprisonment bravely. Once every two weeks-all they were allowed-the prisoners wrote home. From their letters, their anxious families could piece together the loneliness of men who dared not guess what their futures promised, what their country could or would do to save them. At her home in Topeka, Kans., near Forbes Air Force Base, John McKone's wife Connie read and reread every word she received. "The handwriting is John...