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...slavish faith of a majority of the people. If Perón can mobilize that faith to solve even a few of Argentina's vexing problems, he will have come a long way in erasing the stains that once made him one of South America's most odious dictators...
...absolute maryel in the play's most celebrated scene (again suggested by School for Husbands), in which she is forced by Pinchwife to write an odious letter to Horner from dictation and then manages to substitute another of opposite sentiment. Her pauses, her inflections, and her iterations of the simple expletive "so" are indescribably funny. One notices her sly smile on penning "For Mister Horner," one senses her giddy excitement on being able to write her own letter, one enjoys her unconscious tickling of her nose with the quill, one shares her gleeful success at hiding the dictated letter under...
...Troilus and Cressida and All's Well That Ends Well--as "dark" or "unpleasant" or "problem" comedies. The 19th century was generally repelled by Measure, Coleridge going so far as to brand it "the only painful part" of Shakespeare's output and applying to it such words as "odious," "disgusting," and "horrible." Twentieth-century minds have been much more intrigued by the play--some proclaiming it a masterpiece, which...
...There is something odious and all too American about the contrived emotionalism and crass commercialism lavished upon a few hundred ex-prisoners of war, and the dehumanizing indifference in which thousands of war-maimed veterans are doomed to live out their shattered lives...
...holding Cunningham personally responsible, Merhige stated that the practices the inmates were forced to endure "violate the lowest standards of decency," and became even more "odious" when carried out with Cunningham's knowledge and under his direction. Cunningham announced that he would appeal...