Word: gropingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shahn, cool cats off the city streets wander through the compulsive variations of "The Slop," Robbins' reproduction of a minor juvenile mania. Five boys and one girl horse around on a rooftop, spelling out the amoral communal sex of the tenements. A Negro boy and a white girl grope through their loneliness, reaching out with palms that never quite touch. The whole show adds up to the first hit of the fall season. At 39, Dance Master Jerry is still making the guests happy...
...Williams, Brooks has a rare playwright who can make his static electric, and a blinkered grope toward the past as suspenseful as a headlong crash into the future. Maggie the Cat (played with surprising sureness by Elizabeth Taylor) is young, beautiful, childless; her hot tin roof is the marital bed no longer shared by her husband Brick (Paul Newman), a onetime college athlete now tying on the booze bag every night in search of the "click in my head." Together they have come back to Big Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile...
...tiny bells. When the uncertain light of an overcast day is trapped beneath the clouds above and the snow below, everything between fills with a thick and milky film, devoid of feature or contrast. This is a whiteout, and in it, pilots may become dizzy and nauseated as they grope blindly for a surface which can vanish even as they come in for their landing. On the ground, in a whiteout, a man cannot tell whether a dark spot ahead is a distant mountain-or a matchbook cover on the snow 50 ft. away. When he looks down...
...Church attendance zoomed beyond the rosiest hopes of churchmen. Said one minister frankly: "Some of the laggards in my congregation awake on Sunday morning, grope blindly for the Sunday paper and, unable to find it, decide that the only other profitable Sunday morning activity is a visit to church...
...Government cannot live by taxes alone, or by jobs alone or even by roads alone. Government, too, must have qualities of the spirit. Truth and justice and fairness and unselfish service are some of these. Without these qualities there is no worthwhile leadership, and we grapple and grope in a moral wilderness." A Constitutional. In that spirit, Collins pitched into the job of running the government of a state in transition. He gets up at 7 o'clock, likes to have some of his staff meet him at his home for an hour's work. "Once...