Word: frown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoping in the Gloom. Hardy's poems are limited in emotion; says Critic Blunden: his muse "lives too much in the frown." But the range of Hardy's subject matter is as wide as the range of his sympathies. In Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a gay country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder...
...that Skinner is unable to experiment directly on human beings, because this would be the easiest way to silence his critics. But society would frown on anyone who stuck babies in a cage and moulded their behavior in set patterns, or observed their actions when deprived of food and water. Skinner believes, however, that he can perform less damaging experiments with the feeble-minded. "They wouldn't be hurt at all. They would probably benefit from the studies...
...234th play. Many plays belong to Hollywood; others require involved copyright negotiations with estates, literary agents and assorted claimants. Some shows can be presented on live TV, but not on film or kinescope. Some were written by authors like Bernard Shaw who, to TVmen's dismay, frown on any cutting, editing or tampering with their lines...
...that the English have been strangely inconsistent in the words they keep and those they throw away. Why, for instance, does flay persist but not the igth Century word flay some? Why is gruesome still around but not the verb to grue (shudder)? Concludes Curioso Brown, with a February frown: despite the inventiveness of slang, the English language seems doomed to be drowned out by the tintamarre of the commonplace; all it can hope to do is to thribble along...
...bill granting women the right to vote in national elections and to run for Parliament is now before the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies. It may not easily become law since many Moslems frown on female independence; this is in keeping with the spirit of the Koran, which says: "Men are superior to women on account of the qualities with which God hath gifted one above the other, and on account of the outlay they [the men] make from their substance for them [the women]." Turkey, which has had woman suffrage since 1934, Albania, Pakistan and Indonesia are exceptions among Moslem...