Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leopoldville's native city, where hundreds of huts slowly caved in under the ceaseless downpour. In Coquilhatville, striking civil servants who had not been paid for three months gave up their picketing in the driving rain and stayed indoors. This was the land of crisis, the subject of endless U.N. debates, but on the scene it wore a lethargic...
...along with no manager at all. In the longest season ever (each American League team will play 162 instead of the traditional 154 games), almost every record will be within reach. Babe Ruth's 60 home runs, Outfielder Jim Lemon's 138 strikeouts, all the endless statistics of other summers will be under attack...
...Miss Hellman made a diary entry which remains a summation of the theater for her: "Lisp, lisp, lisp, and Thomas Wolfe." She explained that "lisp" refers to a character whose manner of speech she refused to change despite continued harrying from her director and others. Thomas Wolfe represents the endless complaints she heard from Aline Bernstein, her set designer and Wolfe's mistress...
Being, myself, one of the "walking wounded" described in your story, I have a thought to add to those you so ably express. The very summation of our era as "The Age of Anxiety" and our endless preoccupation with anxiety indicates that we have deified the thing which besets...
...look deep in someone's eyes and say what he said." Aided by Gary Cooper's relaxed narration of a fine script, the program looked deep into the eyes of settlers, cowboys. Indians, Westerners of all conditions. With sure irony, it demolished the legends perpetuated on endless TV westerns as it showed the fabled desperadoes as greasy punks, the heroic sheriffs as smalltime officeholders, and the beautiful dance-hall girls a lot uglier than sin. It recalled the West's real life as well as its real death; one memorable picture showed a corpse so riddled with...