Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britons are psychoanalyzed (man on the couch to his analyst, who is sound asleep in a chair behind him: ". . . and always, I feel that I'm an awful bore...
Clear & Steady. He became a founder and later director of a new sort of school-"an institution for the continued education of the educated." As Johnson saw it, "the educated . . . bore a heavy social responsibility ... It was therefore of the utmost importance that the educated mind remain clear and steady." But unfortunately, the good minds seemed to him to be the first to be eroded by "torrents of emotion-bearing catchwords." What the U.S. needed, he decided, was a place where the educated could refresh themselves with reflection and study...
Adapted by Mel Dinelli from his story and play, The Man, the movie is a pseudo-psychological thriller that succeeds in being more sedative than suspenseful. Ida Lupino, looking frail, suffers long and lugubriously, and moody Robert Ryan eventually seems more of a bore than a bogeyman...
...California, Cathy behaved no better. She bore Adam twin sons, then shot him with his .44 and ran off to a nearby town and became a prostitute. Cathy was good at it, and Steinbeck seems to have a fine time explaining her trade. Naturally, Cathy poisoned the brothelkeeper. took over the place, and racked up a lot of money. But she got her comeuppance. Arthritis, and fear that her sins would be found out. broke her evil spirit and she died by her own hand. But not until her shocked, teen-age sons (the second Cain & Abel team) and gentle...
...innovator, helping to break the crusts of conventional literary language. But she took her experiments too seriously and, like many another pioneer, refused to budge from her first discovery. Her manner became a mannerism, her breakthrough a limitation. In her last novel, the old revolutionary proves a rather garrulous bore...