Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugene O'Neill got a soaking in London too. The Times Literary Supplement seized the occasion of The Iceman Cometh's publication there to beat him black & blue. The characters in his plays were described as generally "ineffectual egotists," his philosophy was "jejune," Strange Interlude "badly bungled," Beyond...
The Question. Americans cannot expect to find gratitude, either, although Europeans are astonished by the bold and on the whole unfettered form which Marshall aid has taken. It contradicts all that they had presupposed of the U.S. Congress, which in these parts is expected to do the right thing in...
Never had Moscow's shabby, musty Great Lecture Hall in Polytechnic Plaza been more tightly packed. People who could not find seats sat in each other's laps or in the aisles. The occasion was a lecture entitled: "Love, Marriage and Family in Socialist Society."*
Novelist Alec Waugh, balding elder brother of Novelist Evelyn, explained to a Manhattan interviewer how the Waughs kept from tripping over each other. "We made a compact," recalled Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know...
To the Prince. As the greatest fop and dandy of his age, Christopher Sykes was, in dress and person, a work of art-but a work of art peculiarly Victorian. "Where the fops of other ages took the butterfly as their model, he found inspiration in heavier matter. Dignity, majesty...