Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second act, the galvanic Big Daddy won't tolerate Brick's detachment. The two of them, alone on stage, have a knock-down drag-out dispute in the tradition of the Greek agon. This is the most powerful scene in the play, and one of the most powerful in modern drama. Williams is often at his most effective when he is autobiographical. Tom and Laura in Menagerie were modeled on the playwright and his introverted sister Rose, who had to be institutionalized for life. The confrontation in Cat was his way of trying to exorcise the demonic memory...
...rules. The big question was: Should the ball be primarily handled or primarily kicked? Some said handled, and so evolved rugby football. Rugby has become the main game for other public schools. There the sons of gentlemen, who will never have to soil their hands in mine or factory, knock hell out of each other passing the ball backward. Americans, in their own padded and armored version of the game, pass the ball forward. This has always been taken by the British as typical American perverseness, like icing drinks and signing a Declaration of Independence...
...snotty "brass cracker" Gwen from Atlanta, how the sinister Doc Bobo, Georgia's answer to Papa Doc Duvalier, proceeds toward his doom. Rich and full of color, character and moral drama, A Cry of Angels is an authentic cry of American innocence uttered just as the bulldozers knock down Tom Sawyer's whitewashed picket fence...
...achieved and Russia pushes ahead on arms development, it could obliterate 90% of America's stationary land-based missile force by the end of this decade. This would leave the U.S. with only SLBMs, strategic bombers and a handful of the land-based missiles-not enough force to knock out Russia's nuclear reserves. The U.S. would then be faced with an agonizing choice: either to strike back at Soviet population centers while knowing that Moscow retained the ability to counterstrike at U.S. cities, or to make major concessions to the Soviets and avoid further endangering American civilians...
...military forces and installations, including hardened missile sites, without also obliterating population centers (TIME cover, Feb. 11). Opponents of the new policy, led by Senator Mclntyre, argued that Russia will consider the missile improvements an offensive development that will enable the U.S. to launch a limited first strike and knock out Russian missiles, thereby leaving the Soviets unable to launch a second in retaliation. The Russians will undoubtedly try to match the advances, thus triggering yet another escalation in the arms race. Warns Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, director of the Center for Defense Information: "If both sides have...