Word: dis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled her consort. In practice he eventually tamed and directed her. "I treasured up everything I heard," she wrote, "kept every letter in a box to tell & show him, & was always so vexed & nervous if I had any foolish draft or dis patch to show him, as I knew it would distress & irritate him and affect his poor dear stomach...
...hear again what it was like to grow up bright and sensitive in Lakewood, Ohio. His Stateside Army experi ence during World War II includes the familiar rich, condescending WASP and bullying lieutenant. Later comes a dis satisfying family life in Detroit. Adul tery and divorce are followed by New York sex-and-guilt games and the price one pays in lost work time. For the man nered fictional version, see Gold's novel Salt...
...State for Con gressional Relations: "The rules do not permit attacks on nonmilitary targets and place out-of-bounds all inhabited villages . . . We deeply regret the fate of all victims of the war, both those killed by North Vietnamese action and those whose lives have been lost or dis rupted as a consequence of the defense of their country...
...Williams, eloquent trib utes to the English tongue and moving explorations of the human spirit. This is not to say that Small Craft Warnings is on a par with the durable canon of his finest plays. Here he reminds us of the size and scope of his genius, but dis plays it diminuendo. Call this then a five-finger exercise from the man who is the greatest living playwright in the Western world...
...legacy for his wife. Instead of dying, he lingered on to become a chronic writer. Rich, healthy Howard, by contrast, can think of nothing better to do than squander his easy money on a banal overseas tour and then commit suicide. It is not that Howard is outraged or dis gusted by life; he simply does not know what to do with...