Word: crutch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mark in Bergman's intellectual development. For amidst all the silent anguish, there is no search for God, no solace in Bergman-style pseudo religion, as in Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. Instead, Bergman now seems to suggest that man must stand alone, without the crutch of a religious vocabulary. It is unfortunate that neither this encouraging thematic advance nor Bergman's filmic mastery can hush the grating content which disrupts The Silence...
...made, students feel alienated from their classmates. As one sophomore puts it, "Sometimes I feel as though I have no connection with the people--and even the whole structure--here. There's no one I feel I can really talk to about my thoughts and problems." Even the crutch of the freshman adviser has been pulled away. Girls feel they should be on their own now, and therefore hesitate to take their problems to administrative officials, such as their head residents. "Whereas the freshmen come to us as parents and the upperclassmen, as equals, we have very little conversation with...
Gloucester: My lord, you must not make my staff your crutch...
...Hardy did not expect the transplanted lung to survive indefinitely. He hoped that before the graft was rejected it would be a crutch to help Russell's right lung recover. In fact, the surgeons were delighted to find that the transplanted lung worked with more than 98% of normal efficiency. Fortnight ago, Russell's kidney disease killed him. But in the last 18 days of his life, he had helped to make medical history...
Thumped us with a crutch of horn...