Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neill's genius lay in the fact that he could weave the near madness of his life into his plays. Long Day's Journey into Night showed how closely the life and the plays overlapped, and yet how brilliantly he was able to impose art on mere reminiscence. This book of recollections by his second wife is less than a work of art, but it adds some fascinating scenes to the growing script of Eugene O'Neill's offstage drama...
...doted on physical and mental "setting-up" exercises, excluding from his mind any "idea or discovery of science" that might shake his personal conception of life ("His index was as rigorous as that of the Catholic Church"). In his sober and industrious periods, the mere thought of drink terrified him, and he would clutch Agnes, crying: "I have found my work, my peace, my joy . . . ! I will not say to you, my love, as a poet once said, that I will pluck the stars of heaven to hang them in your hair-I say to you there are no stars...
...Lodge is no mere technician carrying out instructions. As a member of the Cabinet and a respected adviser of both the President and the Secretary of State, Lodge has a big hand in the shaping of policy. Furthermore, he can, and frequently does, get his instructions changed. He often tells Dulles-or in Dulles' absence, Wilcox-that the course decided upon in Washington is likely to stir reactions or encounter obstacles that the State Department had failed to take into account. Usually Lodge wins his point. Sometimes the "instructions". he gets from Washington are verbatim playbacks of what...
...Some physicians argue that with an emaciated, enfeebled patient, aggressive forced feeding may be dangerous. Not so, says Dr. Williams: the feebler the patient, the less resistance she can offer. The starved body (some adult women patients weighed as little as 50 Ibs.) soon responds to food. Sometimes the mere fact of being well fed helps the patient to shuck off the emotional problem. In any case, a starving patient is not a proper subject for any other treatment...
...part of the Anglo-U.S. climate. Scatty, erratic, now on now off the beam, Wodehouse has nonetheless pulled off the astonishing feat of making his creations a living part of the civilized world. Even the many who cannot stomach him have no option but to respond to the mere word Jeeves with a mental picture of a whole society; while to those who lap him up, a whole corner of mental life is occupied by such characters as Lord Emsworth, Lord ("Uncle Fred") Ickenham, Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner, Psmith and that great Sheba of sows, "Empress of Blandings...