Word: gulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hasty Pudding Club finally moved over from Hollis. Stoughton's specter quickened with this great honor and in 1852 sent forth Horatio Alger to conquer the world. Soon Phillips Brooks was inspired to inscribe his initials on a fireplace. When another student painted an owl, a frog, a gull, and a turtle on the doors of room 25, the college carpenter threatened to remove the exhibit and fine the artist, but President Sparks intervened, proving himself a patron of the arts. The Stoughton renaissance culminated in a final burst of glory on the evening of December 15, 1870, when...
...fast movement for the next hour and a half had a breathless here-we-go-again quality. It would have been just another dead-eye Fred taking pleasure in his fingerwork. except that Gulda's pianissimo was sweet as a barrel of honey, his legato glided like a gull, and his perfect shading gave each movement a convincing contour...
...also have a parakeet," added Joan, "named Crazy Crawford." But parakeets (like Peter Lorre's pet sea gull that recently suffered a broken wing) have their own special emotional problems...
...play also dragged a good deal out of 19th-century fiction after it. Neurotic young Kostya Triplev wears the musty mantle of European Weltschmerz and Wertherism, and the sea gull, Nina, seems a period heroine who breaks romantically with conventional life, is "ruined" by an interesting older man and exhibits emotions not so much false as several sizes too large for her. Having imported romantic melancholy, Chekhov-being Chekhov-could only in some degree mock its posturings; The Sea Gull remains an uneasy mixture of satire and sentiment rather than a true fusion of the comic and tragic...
...play, with its writers and actors, has to do with temperament and ego and vanity, and again with irresponsibility and self-indulgence, disappointment and regret-with the minor-key emotions of which Chekhov was already a master. For Chekhov did find himself in The Sea Gull, while still owing much to others: he is actually inferior in it to the precise degree that he is indebted...