Word: chafe
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...small muscle in its script. It sentimentally examines the plight of a son who wants to heal the wound of lovelessness festering between himself and his aging tyrant of a father, magnificently played by Alan Webb. A sense of mortality, filial duty and remorse, family ties that chafe as well as bind, all give the play scenes of poignance but, despite the impeccable direction of Alan Schneider, never a coherent dramatic vision...
...need for softening the present rule, which forces many students into two full years of foreign language study, has become increasingly evident. A proliferation of paignant hardship cases has made the administrative board chafe under a strict rule that limits exemptions to those with a medically attested learning disability. And as one language professor wryly noted last week, the rule has helped induce a Cambridge epidemic of that rare disease--strephosymbolia. A subclause of the new plan wisely allows the ad board to excuse a student from the requirement if his instructor says that further language study would...
...portent of what lies in store for all humanity, there is no particular reason for anyone to care about this father. But Holbrook wants to love him, and tries. The effort mostly takes the form of talk -on filial duty, on paternal sacrifice, on the family ties that chafe as they bind. Instead of a shock of recognition, there is merely the camera click of domestic snapshots that might turn up in any middle-class family album...
Some courses, including a couple of current ones, have from time to time been taught by members of more than one department. But a number of men obviously would chafe if they had to teach under the proposed system. "When you get a committee telling me that I give a lecture on this one day and on that another day, I feel like a $50-a-day call girl," rasps one. "There's nothing here that belongs to me but two lectures in a smorgas-bord that a committee has put together...
Judge Irving H. Saypol was not impressed. In a blistering and verbose 19-page ruling (with three long appendixes) that cited such diverse sources as William Pitt the Elder and Saypol himself, the judge said that Weinstein's complaint must be answered. But he seemed to chafe under the need to wait the required ten days. "The case for relief for petitioner," said Judge Saypol, "is clear...