Word: mutterings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the 15 hardy souls along with 1,500,000 other Red Guards were trundled by truck through Peking's Tienanmen Square. There stood Chairman Mao himself, who recently so reticent, managed to mutter: "Long live the Chinese people!" Lin Piao, Chairman Mao's closest comrade-in-arms, paid special attention to the new Long Marchers. With swarms of Red Guard visitors still in the capital, he said he was in favor of such treks-"as long as they are conducted in a planned, organized and well-prepared...
...Part Two-which differs from Part One as King Lear differs from Romeo and Juliet-the action shifts from the physical to the metaphysical plane. The hero descends into the creative unconscious (Die Mutter) to find the feminine principle (Helena) that can save his soul from damnation by inspiring him to creative activity. After many agonizing struggles, Helena is won and Faust is saved-at the moment of death, he is creatively reclaiming land out of the sea, consciousness out of unconsciousness...
...Knack gives almost a magical impression of freshness, there is little in it technically that is new. Perhaps Lester's major innovation is his use of a chorus. As Nancy alights from her bus, or Tolen and date roar by on his motorcycle, a succession of middle-aged onlookers mutter about the degeneration of youth. (Sometimes we hear only their voices, as in counterpoint.) The comments abound in unintentional puns, doubles entendres, and misunderstandings...
While the danse macabre was replayed in slow motion on video tape, the baffled Boston fans could only mutter they'd been had. The buddy of Mr. 200 suspected it would happen: "When they ran out of Bud an hour before the fight, I knew it was all over. A sign, that's what it was, a sign." No one could believe that the ugly Liston had been felled by a love...
...University. In Philadelphia, she practiced criminal law, became an assistant D.A., and in 1959 overwhelmingly won election to a ten-year term on the county court. Barely 5 ft. tall, she peers from the bench atop three extra cushions and often keeps no-lunch court hours that make attendants mutter, "She's made of steel...