Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among all the 50,000 people in the ring, nervous, 23-year-old Rafael Rodriguez wanted most the approval of Rodolfo Gaona. His nod would add thousands of pesos to the matador's earnings. But approval, if it came, would be only a milder-than-usual insult. Who had a better right to be critical? The old man was the greatest bullfighter Mexico ever produced, and one of the greatest in the world's history...
...other was Henry Julian Wadleigh, 44, former State Department economist. A nervous, bushy-haired man, son of an Episcopal minister, father of three small children, Wadleigh lives in a still unfinished log cabin he is building in Vienna...
Thus far, audiences have shown one remarkable reaction. Many have tittered at times, or laughed out loud at the grotesquely pathetic antics of the mad. This laughter is probably no more than a release from nervous strain. In a sense, occasional nervous laughter at The Snake Pit is a measure of its excellence: U.S. moviegoers are not usually troubled by overdoses of reality. The Snake Pit suggests that Hollywood itself might even be cured some day of its own mild schizophrenia, which has made it live for so long in a world of fancy. It also suggests-at a time...
...Himself. Then one easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took the form of our outlook, our insight and foresight, our Christian endeavor to get right with God and our neighbor. No wonder we become so nervous and fearful when we look at the world's disorder-like Peter when he looked at the stormy waves in which he was destined shortly to sink...
...Barrett Wendell, who looked as if he might have stepped out of the court of Queen Elizabeth; pudgy Josiah Royce ("the Rubens of Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton, the unappeasable pursuer of beauty. After his death, students guessed that he, would enter Heaven shading his eyes against the glare and protesting: "Oh! Oh! Oh! So overdone! So garish...