Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sinfulness is the inability of Schulz's characters to change for the better: fuss-budgety Lucy is destined to grow from "the crabby little girl of today" to "the crabby old woman of tomorrow"; "good ol' wishy-washy" Charlie Brown will be forever friendless, always the losing pitcher in 184-to-O baseball games. Trapped by what Cardinal Newman called "some terrible aboriginal calamity," Schulz's characters never seem able to keep up with the world. As Linus puts it: "How can you do 'new math' problems with an 'old math' mind...
...that a poet regards prose as an inadequate tool to express a man's longings. The poignant intensity of O'Neill is that his spoken lines reach unerringly toward what cannot be spoken. Into Erie's speeches filters not the loneliness of country solitude, but the friendless desolation of big-city anonymity. The rattle of a policeman's billy on an iron railing, the rumble of a subway, the screams of fire sirens that punctuate Erie's monologue are illuminated gravestones of the heart. In the midst of life, Erie is, and will always...
Apart from the "disastrous" economic effects, he concluded, Rhodesia would be left "isolated and virtually friendless in a largely hostile continent." It was, noted British papers, the sternest message of its kind since the Boston Tea Party, and for the time being at least, it was certainly more effective. Amid a flurry of warnings from politicians and business leaders, Smith backed down. He promised the Parliament in Salisbury that he would not declare sudden independence, and personally sponsored a motion declaring this week's referendum would be purely academic. "The British government's moves have upset everything...
Though beaten on the battlefield, friendless and imprisoned, King Charles stubbornly insisted on his divine right to rule and refused to acknowledge Parliament's supremacy. Cromwell and his Republican supporters were determined that the King should die after an elaborately rigged state trial. After ramming the indictment through Parliament, Cromwell handpicked 59 judges to try the King, and sat among them himself. The prosecutor hectored the royal prisoner, who was not even permitted to defend himself. Roundheads in the gallery shouted: "Execution! Execution!" One of the judges finally leaped to his feet, crying: "Have we hearts of stone...
...than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived to grind his employees under heel turns up in Dolly as Horace Vandergelder (David Burns), the matchmaker's mate-to-be, and announces with refreshing pride that he is "rich, friendless, and mean, which in Yonkers is about...