Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apocalyptic hour, and he asks his white-locked King to look upon the dethronement of all order, a grotesque, absurd, horrifying realm of meaninglessness. Instead, Page has encouraged Morris Carnovsky to stress the "foolish fond old man" in Lear, petulant, bewildered and sorely vexed by his daughters' heartless ingratitude. At 77, Carnovsky is a figure of biblical gravity and delivers the lines beautifully in a voice that retains the dark timbre of a cello. But he can no longer vault to Lear's blind splenetic rages...
Unglossed with second thoughts or self-justifications, Wilson's impressions sometimes recall the heartless mirth of an otherwise very dissimilar writer of the period, Evelyn Waugh. If friends got divorced, or somebody disappeared, or a girl slit her wrist with the top of a spaghetti can-well, the other revelers could not pause too long over the misfortune lest they lose their grip and go under too. Wilson himself almost did. In 1929 he suffered a nervous breakdown, probably from the cumulative strain of deadlines and tangled romances. While in the sanitorium he became addicted briefly to the drug...
...book should be faulted for anything, perhaps it should be for putting things in terms that are too black and white. Not everyone who falls in love becomes heartless or goes crazy, and the excess of madness in the book almost reaches the point of being ridiculous. Here too, the ability of the Marias (or at least of one of them) to see themselves objectively just saves them, and they stick in an intentionally ridiculous vignette of a woman who is committed to an asylum after her parents find her locked in copulation with a large...
gray heads, theaters filled with thou sands of members of the Golden Age Club (half price till 5 p.m.), whistling and stomping and carrying on as an other member of the heartless Establish ment gets properly snuffed...
Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, addressed the consortium Monday night, calling Harvard "a pale, bloodless, heartless thing" in an apparent reference to the administration's treatment of the institute...