Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavily on group therapy, and it insists on a tough regime. Since both addict and nonaddict cons have made lying a way of life, absolute truthfulness is demanded. Any hedging, any attempt to shift the blame for their plight to others, is ruthlessly torn apart within the group. Even foul language is banned, because it might snowball into a rumble. And the ultimate punishment is expulsion from the program. But in return, Synanon gives the addict, often for the first time, a sense of belonging to a group. Instead of a "fix," it offers, by the example...
Amira made both foul shots, and Harvard cracked. Lynch, who had played beautifully all evening, threw the ball out of bounds, and fouled soon afterwards; Scully fouled...
Penn made nearly all its foul shots, especially Robinson, who put in 7 of his last 8 to finish high man for the game with 17 points and 15 rebounds. He was followed by Carazo, who had 16 points, and Rhodes scholar John Wideman (10). Inman was high man for the Crimson with 16, followed by Lynch (15) and Vern Strand...
...most painful experience which man can undergo is to strip off veil after veil of obscuring matter and finally encounter what Yeats called "the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart." But to achieve the "wholeness" of which Brother Antoninus speaks, this experience is essential. This is why he writes poetry; it forces him to probe the nature of his heart: "It is painful, but there will be a catharsis, a healing, and an appeasement...
Though The Crucible is a foul deed, the New England Conservatory Opera Department and the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra gave life to parts of this performance, its New England premier. In Act I, Tituba (Sandra Provost) made the most of describing her encounter with the devil. In Act III, Abigail Williams (Linda Phillips) made the court room scene, in which demons appeared to her, fun; a dull, dull text quashed her immediately. Given fatuous parts, many of the other singers (Mary Liverman, Ivan Oak, John Ring, Mary Lou Sullivan, and Robert Donaldson) strove mightily to overcome them. The set was imaginative...