Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to take this opportunity to express my sympathy at the passing of a great American satirist As the last bastion in defense of the vanishing American man, he, almost alone, valiantly bore the struggle on his capable shoulders. With little help but a great deal of sympathy from his own species he struck terrible blows at the gods of matrimony, offering a smile of hope to the beleaguered American male. But, as is the inevitable lot of those who would scoff at the goddess Venus, he fell victim to the very thing he fought . . . This great satirist...
Kahl says that the department realizes this problem and the student's comments bore out ideas that members of the Faculty have held for some time. A faculty committee is already set up to do away with the overlapping prevalent in several courses...
...good theatre, that has to be admitted, a night well spent. But just why, I can't figure out. If there's one thing that's the greatest bore in all the world of literature and drama, it's the theme of Good and Evil. Not that his is the theme of Billy Budd. But the theme of having to choose between evils and having to compromise what is clearly good, goes only one step beyond the old morality play in the subtlety of its thinking...
...Cunard liner Parthia began unloading her cargo. Out of the hold swung three new red double-decker London motorbuses; their sides were plastered with ads for English cigarettes, cars and marmalade: their Dunlop "tyres" were heavy-treaded. And No. 11, the leader of the big reds, still bore her route markings: "BUCKINGHAM PALACE RD. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, CHARING X (for Charing Cross), STRAND, ST. PAUL'S, LIVERPOOL STREET...
...regards as licentious customs. He has managed to suppress Seville's traditional church dancing at Christmas, ban movies accepted in the rest of Spain, and separate men & women at all religious gatherings. Says one critic of Segura: "A saint, had he been born in the 15th century, a bore in the 20th...