Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wood won again in 1930. He threw two touchdown passes to end A. W. Huguley, as Harvard triumphed, 13 to 0. The strong Crimson line, paced by captain Ben Ticknor, bottled up Booth almost completely and, the CRIMSON reported, made him "look like an average back, flashy but unconvincing...
...helplessness at the hands of destiny and trivial accident, the presence of some few gaints onstage is essential. Lawrence Channing, as the Hector determined to avert the Trojan War, never manages to achieve heroic stature. In his initial appearance, returning victorious from a two-bit war, he bounds onstage like a ten-year-old running to mother and bestows on Andromache a puerile peck. He does sometimes, however, rise from his adolescent manner to the posture of a warrior. His oration to the dead on the closing of the Gate of War is most convincing...
There is probably no way to prove that the people who like J.B. are the same ones who read Time Magazine every week, laugh at all of Schlesinger's jokes, find themselves existentially challenged by Reverend But-trick's sermons, own stacks of Rodgers and Hammerstein records, and think James Gould Cozzens should have gotten the Nobel Prize, but one would like to believe it. If only all the forms of intellectual laziness and disinfected passion were some-how congruent, the Enemy would be more clearly defined, easier both to see and to grapple with. But, alas, what Dwight MacDonald...
...solution to curtailing activities like those uncovered in television lies not in passing new laws, he maintained, but "in putting to work what laws and regulations we have." He pointed out that Federal agencies are now belatedly investigating TV activities. "Now that the horse has been stolen, the Administration is rushing in from all directions to close the barn door." He mentioned that "as Governor I know that the public expects me to be on top of the play, every day and every minute...
...secret they wouldn't even tell us." She gave an audible chuckle. "See that man?" she said, singling out a well-dressed gentleman with pad and pencil. "He's observing the effects of this meal. You know, he measures how many ounces of milk are left over, and things like that...