Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States the results of some of the best experimentation in the history of architecture. A living dramatization of the creative arts, for all its functional flaws, it is a good and suitable home for the study of vision and creation. There are quirks of design which are nervous and unappealing, of course, and there are people who don't like it -- for example, the classics professor who compared it to two grand pianos copulating. But there is no bolder building at Harvard; no other can grab a man's attention and hold it for so long a time...
...Freedom Riders or street marchers. He published an essay in 1959 called Nobody Knows My Name, and four years later, in Birmingham and Harlem, and in all the Birminghams and Harlems in the nation and the world, most Negroes still do not know his name. He is a nervous, slight, almost fragile figure, filled with frets and fears. He is effeminate in manner, drinks considerably, smokes cigarettes in chains, and he often loses his audience with overblown arguments. Nevertheless, in the U.S. today there is not another writer?white or black?who expresses with such poignancy and abrasiveness the dark...
...tension and exhilaration of the play is not that Hamlet will kill the king, but that he will lose his reason. His silent plea is Lear's spoken "Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven." By insisting on being cool and levelheaded, Grizzard removes the nervous system of the play; by insisting that Hamlet be normal, he makes he one demand that the most complex character in English drama cannot meet. The Miser, by Molière, the Guthne troupe's second offering, almost visibly chased away the lingering ghost of a sad Hamlet. Director...
Pusey, who made his remarks in an address to the annual meeting of the Association of Harvard Clubs, appeared nervous at the start of the speech, but he soon became emphatic, stressing his points by pounding on the rostrum...
...early interest in physiology, anatomy, and evolutionary theory surely predisposed James toward his pragmatic conception of truth. The phenomenon of consciousness fascinated him, and he speculated that it had evolved to regulate a nervous system that had grown too complex to regulate itself. In this context the purpose for seeking truth is a natural concern...