Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and flinty as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands 5 ft. 11 in., and is, in her own eyes, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." A virgin who shams wantonness, Josie is wildly in love with Landlord...
...fierce novel is that it is a brilliant stunt-a male author staying undetected, for the length of a book, in the mind of a female main character. Brian Moore does not pull off his wig and bow, nor is there any impulse to applaud. Applause, of course, would mean that the deception had failed. It is, in fact, successful, and Moore earns, with great cleverness, a distinction that many writers are born with-that of being judged as a lady novelist...
...assassination clamped an immediate moratorium on campaigning, but there was no end to the speculation about what Robert Kennedy's death would mean to the future of the presidential contest. The first effect was confusion, accompanied by a Babel of rumors. One had it that the U.S. Supreme Court would study the constitutionality of simply postponing the election until 1970. Another predicted that Hubert Humphrey would withdraw from the race in favor of Ted Kennedy. Yet another said that Lyndon Johnson might plunge back into the race. All were remote possibilities at best...
Announcer: Don, tell us about your pitching style. Henry Aaron calls you a "mean" pitcher, and Willie Mays says your fastball, which has been clocked at 95.3 miles per hour, is especially hard to hit because you come in with it sidearm, like the Cincinnati Reds' great Ewell Blackwell used to do. With your whiplash delivery and your arms and legs flailing, you look like a man fighting his way out of a plastic bag. What's more, some of the players around the National League claim you're a "headhunter" because...
What the revolution will mean in the long run, and what "student power" means, is still an open question. Obviously, it will not mean the Millennium. Nevertheless, it is hard not to conclude that Radcliffe is now several leaps ahead of any other university and heading in the right direction...