Word: faze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mame is the Mother Courage of Beekman Place. Stock-market crashes and depressions don't faze her. Pregnant unwed secretaries waddling down spiral staircases amid Japanese modern mobiles don't lift her eyebrows. When she meets a Southern aristocrat named Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, she promptly marries him, goes "Sooth," and teaches the hunting gentry a thing or two by bringing the fox back alive. Mame has gusto, gallantry, and an unshakable philosophy: "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death...
...even think of improving lean Anouilh's Becket, whose Broadway production starred Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quinn, strikes theatrical circles as outrageous hubris, but it failed to faze Anhalt. "The main problem was to stop it from being a play," he explains, "to stop it from being theatrical, and to make it real. Becket on the stage was a series of stylized tapestries. Anouilh had to refer to things that happened offstage, the excommunication scene, or the scene in which Becket is accused by the King's prosecutor, for instance. I had to make the two men into...
...political crises nor financial strains have slowed the hectic advance of Lebanon's biggest business. Although the government enacted its first banking-control code just this year, only one bank has failed-the small Banque Foncière Libanaise, which went down in February. The failure did not faze Beirut's flexible, resilient money men. Since it occurred, total deposits have continued to rise, and the freely convertible Lebanese pound is stronger than ever...
...single marking period. When a Skipper has his moments of success, he sees it as "good luck," a freak communion with a grader, an unexpected compliment. And when he happens to flunk out (with marks like two A's and two E's, his low marks do not faze him at all, since he thinks they are so crazy. He has a moderately unshakable estimate of his own intelligence and a measure of satisfaction with courses completely independent of grades. To his parents, a Skipper must be constantly explaining that his funny marks "don't mean anything...
...I.A.B. stands overflowed with M.I.T. fans; the Engineers had noise, a band, and girl cheerleaders behind them. But it didn't faze a Harvard team which connected on 51 per cent of its shots and dominated the boards...