Word: might-have-been
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...drama of these people is that they have recoiled from drama, are unfit for drama-can only poke around in the cupboard of memories and might-have-been. That, too, is the pathos of them. But it is a pathos that Chekhov sharply rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
Theodore Reeves; produced by Oscar Serlin) is a might-have-been. Playwright Reeves started-and ended-with an idea. He raises his curtain on a set-up that promises to crackle-and then merely crumbles...
...Might-Have-Been. Krueger was born to military tradition older than the U.S. But for the early death of his father, a Prussian colonel, he might today be commanding an army under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. His widowed mother brought her children, including eight-year-old Walter, from Flatow in Prussia to the U.S. to be near an uncle in St. Louis. After she remarried, the family settled in Madison, Ind. Walter's adolescent ambition was to be a naval officer; his mother would not let him apply for appointment to Annapolis. "She was afraid...
...Might-Have-Been. As they pondered these results, airmen were not dissatisfied. but they still had their wistful "if only" or "might-have-been...
...City and every ship at its docks-not to mention its people-would have vanished without a trace. A crater would have been blown in the earth 100 miles across, and the sea would have poured into this vast pit from southern Connecticut halfway to Philadelphia. Cause of this might-have-been catastrophe: some well-intentioned physicists at Columbia University who were cracking uranium atoms with neutrons as contentedly as small boys crack nuts...