Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Priestley had used an English professor and his family for a symbolic blueprint of contemporary England. The professor's wife wants to break with provincial university life; one daughter seeks salvation in science, another in religion; a son can see no salvation in anything, and has turned cynically to ?.s.d. To the professor, the best thing for a country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley...
With practically identical season records, the Varsity match will probably be decided in the sabers, the strongest department. In every match this year the Crimson has won the saber events and in all but the Cornell encounter, was able to break even in the foils and epee...
...meeting this afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences should break through the silence. It must not accept the dissolution of the Geography Department as a fait accompli. Disinterested members of the Faculty should request that the reasons for this dissolution be announced. And unless the announcement is convincing, they should initiate an investigation of the Administration's decision. No such major policy ought to be determined and settled upon under conditions ever remotely smacking of a political intra-departmental coup d'etat...
...Gottwald now confronted Benes, his purpose was again clear: to break necks. He led the ailing, frail old man to the study window and pointed at the intricate baroque splendors of the city below. Benes saw thousands of Communist demonstrators in St. Wenceslaus Square. Beyond Prague's gilded spires, Benes could glimpse his country's fertile hills, and beyond them he sensed the inescapable proximity of Russia. Gottwald said bluntly that unless Benes gave in, there would be a general strike and bloodshed...
...Robinson decided to make the great break. He went to New York, where he wrote poetry, worked for a while on a subway construction project, and sometimes nearly starved. Relief did not come until 1905, when Theodore Roosevelt, one of the few American Presidents who took a public interest in poetry, became enthusiastic over Robinson's verse and found him a sinecure, which gave him both a living and free time. But the years of loneliness and doubt had left a scar on Robinson's mind: failure remained his basic theme. Readers of this book may realize some...