Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freddy (Stockard Channing) is bored and neglected by the pair, whose constant bickering suggests that Freddy was just an excuse for them to marry each other. After an afternoon in bed with first Oscar, then Nicky, she finally explodes in a vaudeville-style rage, dumping a sinkful of dirty plates and ten pounds of bird food on the two men, who are wrestling on the floor, ignoring her until she screams, "I'm going to give it all away! To charity!" Nicky's rejoinder--"Let's not go off half-cocked, now." Her snappy comeback--"The scales have fallen from...
...noteworthy that we hear no clamor from these women to enter an Episcopal convent, where the work is total self-sacrifice and unceasing prayer -never with public display and constant news media coverage...
...Smith's view, the great motivator of economic activity is "the uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition"?or, bluntly, self-interest. Only this drive moves men to produce the goods that society needs. As he put it: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." (Smith, observed English Economist Walter Bagehot in 1888, "thought that there was a Scotchman inside every...
Their favorite villain, throughout, is Harvard University. "Harvard Mission Hill Enemy No.1," the community newspaper headlines read. They protest the constant stream of 30-day eviction notices; they claim Harvard has encouraged "premeditated blight" by buying homes where they intend to put the power plant, letting them run down, and then proceeding to ask for redevelopment power under the law. They see it as a struggle to survive...
...small virtues. To bring about the denouement, Gordimer resorts to a trick best relegated to gothic potboilers: the corpse that will not stay put. The body of a black man, apparently murdered, appears on Mehring's land. He has it buried. A flood brings it up again. The constant resurrection shatters the farmer. As the book ends, Mehring comes to understand that he can never possess the property that the blacks truly own and he can only occupy...