Word: oblivions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there goes Ben Hart again, trying to claim art and Babe Ruth for the Republicans. The dispiritedness and aimlessness of liberals today feeds this sort of foolishness. Liberals themselves made similar claims in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson and a slew of liberal Congressmen seemed to sweep Republicans into eternal oblivion. The Republicans came back swinging...
Edward Morgan Forster might now be remembered as an Edwardian novelist of great promise and slender accomplishment. Two acts rescued him from such oblivion. He wrote A Passage to India (1924), a novel that not only surprised friends who thought he had dried up as an author but also made him world famous. And he lived for 91 years, well beyond such contemporaries as James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. To a remarkable degree, Forster ensured his claim on posterity by outlasting...
...frightening, describing a world that has run out of bicycles, sweet-plums, coffins, pain-killer, honor, time, and God. After a futile attempt at prayer, Hamm screams, "Bastard! He doesn't exist." It shows mankind, having walked to the edge of the plank, hesitate before the leap that threatens oblivion or promises a new beginning...
...Budget Director has proposed reductions in Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies veterans' benefits, civil service retirement programs and grants to states and localities for such purposes as education and urban development. A slew of programs and agencies-some of debatable value, some of remarkable worth-would be consigned to oblivion: the Job Corps, the Small Business Administration, the Export-Import Bank, subsidies to Amtrak. Also, the Reaganauts are considering a genuine freeze on cost of living increases in many benefit programs other than Social Security...
...worth the hype. In fact, the picketers outside the Charles Playhouse who charge the play with being a "vile diatribe against all things Catholic" may be their own worst enemy. Without their help this poorly directed version of Durang's limited comedy would probably just wither away into theatrical oblivion...