Word: interrupter
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Hart's personal financial situation is not precarious, say close colleagues, but he has so little accumulated wealth that with two children in college, he needed to begin work immediately. Said Dixon: "Like the rest of us, he can't afford to interrupt that income stream. He can't just take a year off and write novels." The author of two novels already, Hart does hope to start another one in his spare time...
Prof. Kennedy offered his view that there can come a point where a speaker's views are so abhorrent or "beyond the pale" that private citizens have or should have the legal right to interrupt such speech and thereby prevent its dissemination. His position, in short, was that one may and even should decide whether or not to allow a particular speech by examining the content of that speech. Prof. Kennedy was referring, in particular, to student efforts to interfere with a speech given by South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown...
...Particularly intriguing was the way the private Gar turned his back in embarrassment whenever the public Gar showed sentimentality or emotion toward another character. And when Gar, his father, and the long-time maid (perfectly played by Betsy Menes) are praying, the private Gar seeks to interrupt his other self's prayer with sexual thoughts...
...broadstroke paintings of bullfighters and peasants decorating the walls, the loosely hung curtains and various knick-knacks all contribute to the quietly Mediterranean atmosphere--though expert Ted would interrupt here to emphasize that Portugal is an Atlantic country. To the uninitiated American, the effect is the same...
With the exception of death, nothing seems likely to interrupt the boozy monotony of such played-out lives. Amis does, as it happens, kill off one of his major characters, with no warning at all. But this end is not a climax. The novel's conclusion echoes with small regenerations, salvages hoarded against the arrival of the inevitable. The comfort is cold but no less welcome for that. The Old Devils is not quite Amis' funniest book; it is his wisest and most humane...