Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, the eventual winner gesticulates wildly. Everyone else imitates the gesture, pointing at the sky. It must be emphasized that excitement is enormously increased for near-sighted reporters, who see nothing except stars and trolley flashes...
There was no dog to be seen--except a small mongrel attracted by the noise. It seemed to make no difference to those in the game. Finally, at a prearranged signal of "Itsgone," the fingers come down, the lights come on, and the players shuffle away from the quiet Charles...
With the go-ahead from the welfare agency, the client signed the necessary forms, and the papers were filed in court. Except in cases of extreme poverty, the client pays the court costs...
...Museum of Fine Arts has succeeded, in short, in presenting an artist's art-exhibit rather than the institutional variety almost invariably found in presentations of this scope. The tacit assumption that these works of art are fully articulate in themselves leaves little to be added except that the exhibition is a magnificent one and that everyone ought...
...rehearsed for this weird performance with The Fountainhead (1943), in which she rhapsodized the lone genius and his fight against the common herd. She deserves credit at least for imagination; unfortunately, it is tied to ludicrous naiveté. There could have been something exhilarating about the capitalists' revolt-except for the fact that what Author Rand presents is not so much capitalism as its hideous caricature. In fact, if her intention were to destroy faith in capitalism, she could not have written a book better suited to the purpose. At the end, the lesser men have been beaten...