Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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British critics sometimes express surprise that Ayckbourn's provincial comedies (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests) find appreciative audiences in the U.S. Perhaps suburbia is not a locale but a compendium of transferable manners and mores...
...Jewel), whose last laugh seems to have long been buried in the creases of his face. As his pupils sprint apprehensively through their routines -ethnic, absurd one liners, godawful -Eddie offers his philosophy of comedy: "A real comedian dares to see what his listeners shy away from, fear to express. A joke releases the tension, but a true joke has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation...
...newly published first volume of Woolf's massive correspondence (over 3800 letters exist) is a good example of the extent to which Virginia was secure in her literary abilities and insecure in her dealing with people. In these letters one might expect that she would use her skill to express herself more clearly, but, invariably, it is precisely herself that she chooses not to express. She circles all about it, speaking of what she's done, whom she's seen, where she's been; but as to how all this affects her, what she feels--at that the reader...
...writing to express my feelings about the present academic calendar here at Harvard. I was upset by Dean Pipkin's statement that the schedule may not be changed to pre-Christmas exams, etc. because "only" 60% of the students polled reacted negatively to the present calendar...
...noon with eyes already so glazed that Treasury Secretary William Simon was reminded of a "windup doll." Nixon let himself ramble incoherently at private dinners. At a pre-Christmas dinner in 1973 with a few intimates, including Political Adviser Bryce Harlow and Senator Barry Goldwater, he was unable to express himself. "Bryce, explain what I'm saying to Barry," he pleaded several times. Next day Goldwater called Harlow, asking, "Is the President off his rocker?" Replied Harlow, "No. He was drunk...