Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reiterated the age-old cry, "Since most bettors lose, why do they keep at it?" Is it really necessary to bring in such abnormalities as masochism to explain that? The struggle to win, with its failures and successes, its climaxes and debacles, its endless variety of patterns, provides one of the most fascinating and exciting forms of amusement known...
Porter chalked up his first (minor) success by getting the Government to slash the number of its proliferating ministries from 43 to 15. Mark Ethridge cleared the decks for action by the U.N. commission (which had so far been bogged down in endless, petty testimonies) by obtaining unanimous agreement to limit witnesses' time to one hour, and by sending field teams to the troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case...
...world Joyce wrote about was, on the surface, the city of Dublin, where he had lived until, at 22, he forsook Ireland for lifelong expatriation on the Continent. His endless evocation of Dublin and the inner life of its people, pathetic, somnambulist, comic and dirty, was as factual as a photograph and as symbolic as a liturgy. Even sympathetic critics sometimes lost patience with him. Wrote Cyril Connolly...
...Square, Keenan Wynn and Jack Carson, a brace of Hollywood's better wits, find themselves stymied by some of the feeblest of material. Garbed in the inevitable technicolor. "The Time, The Place, and The Girl" turns out to be an all-too-typical musical, straight off the moviemakers seemingly endless assembly line. Jack Carson does his best to liven things up a bit, handling a sparse handful of gags with a veteran hand, and most of the musical numbers, though of no great significance, are pleasant enough to the eye and ear, but that's about...
...Youth for Democracy have maintained their programs but lost their backing because idealism in accepting Communists gave way to apathy in routine dealings with them. Disaffected members of these chameleon-like organizations claim that the price of idealism these days is hard-headed vigilance--the cost of political independence endless man-hours of organization patterned after, but in opposition to, the surging Party tide...