Word: denizens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...examples, Anthony McKay as Natalia's slighted husband, quite skillfully makes his character a denizen of French farce. In any other play, his stylized portrayal would have been quite funny (as, even in this one, it is) except for the fact that McKay's every entrance disturbed the production's then-prevailing mood. Ann Sachs, who, as the tutor's adolescent lover Vera, has a role (that of a girl, wounded by love, who hardens into womanhood) similar to that she played in The Hostage. As a rural character she is fine, fresh native, though perhaps too given to sometimes...
...away; there is no air now to do damage. Gravity has fallen to zero, and frail antennae and solar panels can swing outward, pushed by feeble springs. The spacecraft absorbs sunlight, as a baby breathes air, and electrical energy pulses through its metal circulatory system. It is now a denizen of space...
...every denizen of the U.S. Capitol knows, legislative history is sometimes made over a friendly bipartisan glass of bourbon or Scotch. The convivial sessions in Charlie Halleck's "Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...
...know that a tenor is a being apart, who holds the power of life and death over the works he sings, over the composers and consequently over poor devils of players . . . He is not a denizen of this world, he is a world in himself...
...such a view is by no means universally held. Another long-time denizen of the pier protested vigorously when we suggested that T Wharf once had the reputation of being a center for Bohemians. "That depends on what you mean by Bohemian," she said. "Sure, we used to do some funny things. Like once we all got dressed up in fancy costumes and walked from the Wharf clear up to Scollay into a Hayes-Bick. But they wouldn't serve us. Well, then, when the Megansett Junior Tea Room was out at number 22-23 on the Wharf, we used...