Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time, Ian, a nondescript clerk, had met Myra, 18, a typist who soon began moonlighting for Ian as a sadist's apprentice. When their parlor perversities and homemade dirty photographs began to pall, there was very little left to do but to test De Sade's theory: "Murder is a hobby and a supreme pleasure." A young corpse a year, with frequent visits to the graves on the moors, kept Ian and Myra reasonably serene but leaves Williams feverishly laying out plot and explication like a row of tombstones.* He points, he nudges, he oohs...
...body of Ann LeConte, a clerk-typist at the School of Education, was found Sunday lying on the ice under Boston University Bridge...
...told his fate with absurd and explicit clarity at the play's beginning: "You're going to die in an hour and a half. You're going to die at the end of the play." His name is Berenger -lonesco's Everyman, who was the clerk in Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once decked...
...lack of direction in Elaine's characterization points up similar flaws and inconsistencies in The Graduate. Nichols' conception of Benjamin turns him into a high school sophomore. His confrontation with a hotel desk clerk reveals a fear and naivete inconceivable in a 21-year-old; and if we accept his high school gaucheness and inability to cope, we certainly can't accept his knowledgeable cool in the toughest strip joint on Sunset Boulevard, or his heroic initiative in wooing Elaine toward...
Several of the five took offense at what they regarded as Goldberg's attack on their word. "I'm not on trial," Councillor Thomas W. Danehy replied. Mahoney then had the memorandum read into the record and instructed the city clerk to add the five names...