Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside, Princess Aisha sprawled on a yellow satin divan and recalled the Tangier speech. "I was not nervous," she said. "I was simply unknowing. I didn't realize the import of what I was saying. His Majesty had asked me to speak. It was only after I spoke that I realized, I who lived so freely, what things were really like in Morocco, and what would happen because I had spoken...
...opera's boiling action loose from the Met's antiquated stage. Painter Eugene Berman, in many ways the star of the evening, brilliantly solved the problem with a second curtain halfway back on the stage which could be drawn and closed to let the scenes change at nervous speed. His solid 17th century Seville glowed with rust-brown and gold under hot blue skies, unfolded to reveal a succession of magnificent purple-and-crimson interiors...
...memory of O'Neill is that he was good-looking, very nervous, extremely impatient with 47, and anxious to get down to live in Greenwich Village... The first [of two plays O'Neill wrote during the year] was inconspicuous, and the latter was labored and stiff. His worst fault, I think, was an ineptitude at dialogue, except when the speakers were raving drunk or profane...
...Thornton Wilder, it has diligently cultivated the best U.S. writers of every decade since its founding. In its broader role as an exponent of the American idea, it has molded its mandate to the times and, at its best, brought to trie vital issues of the day that "nervous force" without which, as Atlantic Editor Walter Hines Page said in 1902, "a magazine deserves...
Papa's Fifty Grand. The Atlantic's nervous force was apparent in its first year, when Editor Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson pounded out white-hot antislavery editorials, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier contributed poetry, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had given the Atlantic its name, wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. The Atlantic, long famed for its fiction, has "enjoyed a perpetual state of literary grace," as Professor Frank Luther Mott once noted. When Boston started fading as literary hub of the U.S., the magazine introduced its readers to such diverse talents as Bret...