Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film the screen version. Mann makes William Inge's portrait of frustration and wasted lives even more harrowing on film than it was on the stage. With few close-ups, the camera prowls the squalid little home of the Delaneys like a fascinated eavesdropper. It hides at the bottom of the stairs and catches the plump disarray of Lola as she wanders sleepily down to answer the door-bell; it watches the young boarder nuzzling her boy-friend; it peers across the room at Lola, confidently alone and wriggling happily to exotic music from the radio. Throughout the film...
...Freischütz, but soon found herself. Then came Haydn's Symphony No. 73-with Gianella and the L.P.O. outdoing themselves-and the Tannhäuser overture. By this time, the Albert Hall audience was applauding wildly-though whether from seeing a conductor who unabashedly scratched her bottom during the Haydn or from pure admiration of her musicianship, it was not yet apparent. But after a roof-raising Beethoven Fifth and a racing William Tell, there was no doubt about Gianella's acceptance. While Albert Hall stood and cheered, she took a bouquet and threw it flower...
...does it on a larger scale than the bricklayer who only sees that a brick is laid level. I know no a priori reason why he should not have a greater reward. Kant did it on a larger scale than the architect . . . Some kind of despotism is at the bottom of the seeking for change. I don't care to boss my neighbors . . . even when, as frequently, I think their wishes more or less suicidal...
...Dogmatic Instinct." Replied Laski: "Your economic diagnosis . . . is at bottom the economics of the soldier who accepts a rough equation between isness and oughtness . . . You are living amid a system where the classic principles of capitalism still work successfully. I amid one where the growing inadequacy of that machine is most obvious...
...role of reason: "As I grow older I realize how limited a part reason has in the conduct of men. They believe what they want to-and although liable to shipwreck, they very generally get off with a hole in the bottom of their boat and stick an old coat into that...