Word: grovelings
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...purposes--catching a mate and bearing children. Shaw envisaged women as infinitely superior to the meandering, excitable man; and the conflict between male and female, in his works, is the basis for comedy on a high plane. Not so with Wouk, for his women seem to flounce and grovel around in a prolonged adolescence before they finally settle down, scarred but happy, to a respectable life of breeding. Despite her courageous accumulation of savoirfaire, Marjorie is not a very intelligent young lady. We are asked to have sympathy with her as she plods along the road to conventionality...
Buechler, unlike most of those who have struggled with the Fable, takes the book neither as an opportunity to grovel before the master nor to throw dirt in his face. Nor is he mesmerized by the Christ analogies, but instead considers the equally important Faulknerian themes of sacrifice and human dignity as they appear in the book. My only quarrel with the review, in fact, is its conclusion, wherein Buechler, after making what seemed like a good analysis of a bad book, urges it upon the unsuspecting reader: "Any book of Faulkner's deserves to be read and considered simply...
...biggest disappointment in Full House is The Ransom of Red Chief, where two kidnappers steal a ten-year-old terror. Fred Allen and Oscar Levant would seem ideal as the bumbling criminals; instead, both play it dead-pan, leaving Red Chief--who should be the only poker face--to grovel for the laughs...
Week in & week out, the Soviet press pictures the U.S. economic system as being in a bad way: U.S. unemployment runs as high as 20 million, the Russian papers say, and in the big cities beggars grovel in the streets. Last week in the U.N. budget committee, Russia proposed that the U.S. share of the U.N. expenses be raised from 37% to 50% ($23,284,150), on the ground that the U.S. economy is able to carry the extra load better than any other country's. Russia's share...
Witness Wilhelm Gellinick said he heard Ilse tell her husband: "My little pigeon, I think it is time for that old man [in a working party] to grovel a bit." The old man, said Gellinick, was made to roll up & down a hill several times, later died as a result. Gellinick testified that he worked in Buchenwald's pathology laboratory, saw human skin brought in and worked into lampshades for presentation to Ilse's husband...