Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printed program last evening bore a carefully ink-stamped addition so that we might know who delivered the prologue to the play-within-a-play, a matter of three lines. Yet the program did not list the designer of the settings (which are properly sparse, and include a gorgeous pseudo-tapestry that is dropped from time to time) or the designer of the lighting (which is only...
...guerrillas were armed wih submachine guns, pistols, grenades and explosives. Two of the guns were Belgian Fabrique Nationale automatic rifles that bore the Cuban military crest and were traced to a 1959 shipment to Castro. There were also five antitank projectiles of Russian make...
...whom things happened, the Chekhov hero and heroine are people to whom nothing happens. His Sisters exist in a sad purgatory of might-have-beens and never-will-bes. Masha (Kim Stanley), married at 18 to a bureaucratic clod, alternately tongue-lashes him as a clownish bore and lapses broodily into tears. Irina (Shirley Knight) has made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand life on their own terms, too proud...
...bore down heavily on the civil rights issue, fully aware that Goldwater's image is badly flawed on that subject. The Republican Party, said Scranton, must be "responsible for human liberty, its preservation on the North American continent and its inspiration around the entire world; responsible for giving every American a fair chance at a share of the good life; responsible for underlining the injunctions of the Constitution and the Declaration of Inde pendence; to put solid flesh on those noble words that all men are created equal." In that statement, Scranton reflected the mainstream of national Republican thinking...
...Museum of Modern Art refused to label its works as a permanent collection, and always planned to switch time-tested art to dustier museums. It bought paintings on the calculation that one out of a dozen might have permanent value. "Today's masterpiece is sometimes tomorrow's bore," wrote the first director, now director of museum collections, Alfred H. Barr Jr., in 1942. Even today, the official permanent collection numbers fewer than 20 works...