Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lahr flop, because he has been and still is a very funny man. But with Shakespeare, Lahr faces a special difficulty: he is unable to create an image of himself different from the one he has built up over the years, and the usually funny personage doesn't fit into the play Shakespeare wrote. Lahr overacts, as does almost everyone in this production. His most irritating mannerism was an overuse of the forefinger. He brandished it and he gesticulated with it, to no purpose or effect. He was sometimes funny in the final scenes, when the offending digit was subtracted...
Like Butterflies. Underground, the beleaguered Protestants struggled to keep the faith alive. Carrying slats of wood, groups would assemble by night in quarries and grottoes, and fit their boards together to make a pulpit. Other pulpits were made that could be instantly transformed into ladders at the approach of the authorities. Most Huguenot houses had hiding places built into the walls for fugitives like the young shepherd, Pierre Laporte, whose nom de guerre was "Roland...
...Catholic seminary for the training of students for the priesthood, I have been teaching for years the possibility of synthetic biogenesis. The only thing that amazes us in this matter is that it is taking the scientists so long to accomplish it. As a reality, it will fit in perfectly with Thomistic philosophy and theology. This, I think, should take us off the hook we were never really on and leave Lois dangling there instead...
...Byrd and his lieutenants. "I am certainly not going to label these distinguished Virginians as Republicans," said Almond with deadpan irony. "Senator Goldwater has already done that. Whether his statement is a compliment or an accusation is a matter for these gentlemen to deal with as they see fit...
...monarchs who is more than merely decorative. At 41, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shahanshah (King of Kings) of Iran, is undisputed boss of his nation. "His Imperial Majesty is above everything," a Teheran newspaper recently explained to its readers. "Constitutionally. he can appoint or dismiss a Premier as he sees fit. He can also dissolve parliament if he so chooses. He decides on which projects his country needs, bills that should be presented for passage by the legislature, and on the conduct generally of home and foreign policy...