Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Preston, this disaster's star, noted recently that it's the most "literary" play he's read in years, and indeed it is. Take, for example, the twelfth century similes: "You're like the rocks of Stonehenge, nothing can knock you down;" or, "You're dull as plainsong." or then again, "You're so foul you're fair." At times, it seems like the entire purpose of the drama is to show that the Plantagnets were, after all, just folks. "You're a failure as a father," the adolescent Prince John accuses the King, while the Queen muses, "Children...
...himself "a grain of sand in the public's eye," and he could be just as irritating. His friend Ben Hecht called him "a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into one." To Showman Billy Rose, compliments and catcalls were one and the same. Every knock was a boost, every insult a reminder that at least people were talking about him-as they had from the time he was a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side until his death last week...
...Crimson currently has a 2-7 Ivy mark, and has a good chance to knock off Brown (1-8) this evening. The Bruins have no exceptionally big men, nor do they have any devastating offensive threat...
...Verdon can't cook chili, Pedernales River or any other style. And we'll bet two bits he's never sunk a fang into a puree of garbanzos. All of which boils down to: "If you ain't tried it, don't knock...
...came when the Master of the House invited himself up to Tea one afternoon. Unfortunately, George did not remain quiet, and soon after the Master arrived she began to whine and growl in a most piteous way and to knock on the door to the living room behind which she was incarcertated. The Master, remarking on the peculiarity of the noises issuing from behind the door, opened...