Word: juts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...View plainly seeks to evoke the drama's great first home of guilty passion and fatal ignorance. But the play, in all this, only emphasizes how little its peasant psychology and hot Sicilian natures have in common with highborn Greek tragedy. Only now and then does there jut up the fated blundering of life, and the pity of it. Far oftener it seems no Furies' shears that slit, but the vendetta's dagger, not prideful man that falls, but tormented beast...
...next serve was successfully returned by Head's erratic backhand. Hartwig's backhand volley drove one in the alley; Trabert reached for it, slid to the grass, and the game was over. The match and the Davis Cup were Australia's. Said Australia's balding, jut-jawed Captain Harry Hopman: "We are very much relieved...
...University Theater last week advertised its double-bill with a large multi-colored poster which read "ALL CINEMASCOPE SHOW." Jut twenty-five years before, the same theater announced an equally alluring program with a similar billboard. That sign read "ALL TALKY SHOW...
Probably last week's biggest loser was the Aussies' jut-jawed Captain Harry Hopman, who has been attacked for run ning his team like a combination top sergeant and boarding-school headmaster...
...nurse. To varying degrees, the rest of his family approves of his venture, and forms a cheering section outside his bedroom door. Overnight a remarkable change takes place: by dawn the young man has shed his drab finales and pale timidity for a West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places would hardly do credit to a reform school stag. For authors Theodore Hirsch and Jeanette Patton, this may be high comedy. More nearly, it is a wake over comedy's grave...