Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schonfield has missed the point. The plot is much bigger than he realized; its magnitude must make us gasp with admiration. Think of the Madison Avenue techniques apparent in the show put on some 30-odd years earlier-finding out about the impending tax from "contacts" (the perfect excuse for a trip to Bethlehem), timing the conception of a boy child, setting the stage (the angels' choirs and star alone must have cost plenty). What seriousness of purpose, what singleness of thought to hold to for 33 years And finally, she even managed to have Him find someone...
...last gasp of amateur writing for a college magazine was the Harvard Square sex story genre of the '50's. "Everyone in love at Harvard wrote one of these," Culler said. It usually dealt with the problems of college love, and was set in such familiar locales as the steps of Widenor Library or a room in Eliot House. The best of these -- "Winter Term" by Sallie Bingham -- is in the new anthology...
...year is 1933. Tender-hearted Lowenthal laughs off the discourtesy of his shipmates: "There are nearly a million Jews in Germany. What are they going to do, kill all of us?" At which point Kramer stops the music, ends the conversation, and gives the audience ample time to gasp...
...question is, can Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Claude Osteen stifle the Twins' hitting? Sure, Osteen beat them five times in a row when he was (gasp!) a Washington Senator, but can he and the others stop the "new," scrambling, Dodger-style Twins attack...
...papers. When that got over with, I had to hunt a bit to find reading matter, but I finally picked up a copy of Whisper that had something about "Sex Perversions Rock Harvard." Once I'd found that the rest was easy. I worked through True, Gent, Look, See, Gasp, Startle, and Shudler that spring...