Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What new off-Broadway play is written in the key of flat? (See THEATER...
Bombast & Scorn. The whole idea was enough to drive Governor George Wallace into paroxysms of rage. He tried appealing for a stay of Judge Johnson's decision, but was turned down flat. He went before the Alabama legislature to rend the air with 20 minutes of bombast; the proposed march, he declared, was Communist-inspired, abetted by a "collectivist press," by "propagandists masquerading as newsmen." He delivered himself of a withering blast against his old Alabama University friend, Judge Johnson, calling him a man who is "hypocritically wearing the robes" of a judge while "presiding over a mock court...
Tennis is preceded by an opaque little fable called Sing to Me Through Open Windows. It is done in the key of flat...
Still, landing on firm ground, instead of the warm oceans where U.S. astronauts dunk themselves, has its advantages. The Russians may do it primarily because they possess vast areas of flat and almost uninhabited territory, but they also prefer it. A spacecraft that descends too fast will hit the ground with little more impact than if it hits water. And survival on solid ground is a lesser problem than after a water landing. There is no chance that the men will drown or that their ship will sink if not picked up promptly. Storms do not corrugate the land with...
...into a combattant, soldier with lines to protect or fortresses to form. For the Negroes, the conversion process is been a blessing. It has infused purpose and implexity into lives that would otherwise be said and hopeless. For whites, the conversion has been a tragedy, compressing three-dimensional into flat stereotypes...