Word: lifelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shakespeare ends his entrancing balcony scene by giving Juliet a godawful valedictory couplet; and, when she is discovered apparently lifeless, the Nurse's "O woeful day" speech is embarrassing. Then there are those two short consecutive scenes that inflict the words "banished" and "banishment" on us no less than 26 times. Not even General St. Pe's repeated references to his "seventeen years" of marriage in Waltz of the Toreadors can come close to the numbing annoyance of this portion of Romeo...
...back to back massacres were dreadful enough in themselves: the world was stunned by photographs of lifeless children, bloody victims, agony-stricken mourners. Beyond that, the two days of insensible terror threatened to accomplish what fanatics on either side hoped they would: break up the disengagement talks that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been conducting between Jerusalem and Damascus. Actually, the terrorism appeared to have had an opposite effect. The horror of what had happened and what else might occur emphasized the necessity for peace. At week's end, after his fourth shuttle round trip of the week...
...Monday the Israelis took us to Quneitra, capital of the Golan. Before Israel captured it in the 1967 war, it was a town of 20,000 Syrians. Today Quneitra sits smashed to bits, lifeless, under the blazing Middle East sun. It is this desolate ruin that the Syrians so desperately want to recover and rebuild...
...Back Bay expert Ahern, a collaborator with Pei on the Harbor Towers Project, voices a different, aesthetic concern about the buildings: "The towers are ponderous, lifeless, and uninspiring. They are just big tons of concrete, and really...
...that play, written shortly before World War I, Shaw dramatized the sundering of the social fabric of Western civilization. Stoppard is concerned with the moral fabric, the abyss of nonbelief. He sees man, devoid of metaphysical absolutes, as rending his fellow man and reducing the planet to a desolate, lifeless cipher rather like the moon, which is a key symbol in Jumpers...