Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrary, an aeolian cavern of Southern garrulity is opened up and the air is thick with all the Confederate clichés about honor, guilt, familial dooms and expiations, the Civil War and slavery. There is much speculation on the quintessential nature of Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most are inclined to go off and hole up with muskrat skinners in the swamp drink a jug of likker and just weep into the warm...
...twice or many times, you're expected to have a supply of ready-reserve sea stories on hand for the attentive. The sad fact is, you do. But the temptation to satisfy fantasies, the case with which life at sea can be embroidered, make it hard not to lie, and over the winter in House dining halls you finally grow flip about the whole business...
Instead, the President indicated, the hope of the future must lie in social and moral advances. "I prophesy peace is not only possible in our generation: I predict it is coming even earlier," he said. And he voiced his wish that the next World's Fair would see "an America in which no man must be poor, In which no man is handicapped by the color of his skin or the nature of his beliefs...
...obstactle to transfering ownership of the land may lie with the MDC which is obligated by state law to reserve the tract for extension of the Belmont-Arlingon MTA line. Nevertheless, Rep. O'Neill said last night that the law "probably could be taken care...
...this, the fault must lie chiefly with Seltzer, who allowed Mark Bramhall to play Brutus at the top level of intensity throughout the play. Bramhall gives every sentence weightiness, makes every speech momentous. It is with energy, not respect, that he controls the conspirators. His antics make Cassius seem calm by comparison. And in a second act where everyone--Bramhall, David Rittenhouse (Antony), Edwin Holstein (Octavius), and Thomas Weisbuch (Cassius)--is playing at fever pitch, where a ghost puts in an appearance, and where the prodigious battle scene takes up fully ten minutes, the play degenerates into a second-rate...