Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about insulting both hosts and lecture audiences, damning society for its regressive complacency, whimsically denigrating Shakespeare ("a great poet with the mentality of a female novelist"). Last week self-educated Outsider Wilson tried a new routine by viciously assailing himself. His confession: "I wrote The Outsider with completely false intent. . . It is just a fraud. I dashed it off in three months and hoped that it looked erudite-and I expect to spend the rest of my life living it down!" What did that make Defrauder Wilson? "A poet, not a philosopher...
...Democratic Advisory Committee and the eight persons who already have accepted posts include only three legislators, Senators Humphrey and Kefauver and Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. Consequently, Paul Butler's hope that powerful members of Congress would join seems to have been overly optimistic, if not naive, for in intent and organization the group was both an insult and a threat to Johnson, Rayburn...
...Israel's action in the Sinai was a purely defensive measure, forced upon her by continuing attacks and obvious aggressive intent from Egypt...
...skill looked up at a bold, white sign on the big Scoreboard and smiled at its airy warning: "Classification by points on a national basis is not recognized." When a man wears his country's colors in competition, beating an opponent takes on added meaning; individual competitors, intent on winning an individual championship, may be too busy to keep score, but someone with team spirit is always around to do it for them...
This huge historical novel gives the impression of having been written by two different authors-one whose job it was to put plenty of sex on every other page; the other a Francophile intent on cramming in as much esoteric knowledge as possible about Napoleon, Egypt, archaeology, physics, intrigue and strategy. Fortunately, both writers are combined in Humorist Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney, so that sex is more often ridiculous than salacious, and the historical asides often get a witty assist over the dusty pit of pedantry...