Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What should schools do when pupils have children?" asked Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet. A Bible teacher in a school in southern Sweden had posed the question after two girls bore babies fathered by fellow students. Should they be expelled, or at least get bad-conduct marks on their final reports? The Bible teacher's view was that they should. Not so. said the principal, and handed out good-conduct marks. The school's teaching staff agreed, taking the position that "the schools should not punish, now that society no longer does." The outraged Bible teacher appealed...
...reportorial narrative. The show, blatantly corny and specializing in unabashed sentimentality, reaches far to pluck at the heart strings, and frequently succeeds. Its formula is close to foolproof. It selects some outstanding person, then gathers friends and relatives to fill in his life story and pay tribute. Never a bore, the show often verges on questionable taste, just as often raises a skillfully engineered lump in the viewer's throat...
...remarkable man, but of course impossible, quite impossible," is the sort of thing British intellectuals say of Percy Wyndham Lewis. Such comments are usually accompanied by a slight quavering of the speaker's shoulders, as if these still bore the unhealed scars of a Wyndham Lewis drubbing. To many, the mere mention of Lewis' name evokes a hefty figure, dressed in a broad black hat and sweeping black coat, glaring sternly at humanity through formidable glasses. Sir Osbert Sitwell recalls Lewis sitting at a restaurant table back in 1919. "Remember...
Beyond the Dessert. In Charleston, W.Va., at the gala opening of Woodrum's Tearoom, the proprietors did some rapid table hopping after they discovered that matchbooks placed before each customer bore an advertisement for indigestion tablets...
Damn Yankees is less perfectly sustained than The Pajama Game; it slows down in places, or to keep fast, turns choppy. And it may disappoint people who find baseball a bore. For all others, however, the long jinx on baseball as a stage theme has been broken at last by the high jinks of a good, gay show...