Word: darkeners
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...have a good hunch that a lot of the people who are "heckling" Jack Kennedy about his church never take time to darken the doors of their...
...Visit brought the Lunts to Broadway-for a rumored final visit to Broadway-in a theater piece of strikingly acrid power. Adapted by Maurice Valency from the German of Swiss Playwright Friedrich Düurrenmatt, The Visit begins in light colors and comedy guise, suddenly to darken the face of its canvas, to blacken the hearts of its characters. A grisly fable of a woman's vengeful hate, it shows a whole community relentlessly succumbing to greed...
...first act, when she launched into the opera's most famed aria, Casta Diva, the house was hushed in taut expectancy. All of the familiar intensity was there, and the first notes were luminously clear. But as the aria moved into the upper registers, the voice seemed to darken and tremble. The audience responded with a mixture of hisses and bravos. Callas lifted one thin arm in a furious gesture of contempt...
...canker that lies at the heart of comedy. Ohio-born James Purdy, 34, writes in a manner that is all his own, using a prose at once precise and clumsy, almost as if he had learned English well but late in life. People "grunt" out entire sentences, voices "darken" at listeners, metaphors sometimes reach too far and fall into absurdity...
...machine-operated scoring has on occasion tempted students to "beat the system" through the marking of more that one of the numbered answers. Such offenders fall into categories. The first, or "naive" group, will blacken all five of the answer spaces. The second type, a little shrewder, will darken one of the blanks, while placing tiny dots, which will register as correct on the machine, in one or two of the other four' spaces...