Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half featured that obnoxious march from foul line to foul line that so often ruins basketball. For a brief moment it looked as though the Crimson would come back, but trailing 37 to 32, the varsity stood by and watched as Yale reeled off nine straight points...
...politics complained that the character lacked a social conscience, that the book itself was devoid of a social meaning. And, in a way, it is legitimate criticism. When a protagonist of great stature fails to come to terms with reality, it is seldom a social novel; but it is often great tragedy, and such is Pasternak's book...
...characters move along in a sweeping dream. They meet and react; they pass through each other's lives but for consistency of purpose and character, they might as well be unamed. The texture of the book itself is often dream-like. There are no expanations for remarkable conincidences. Useless characters and irrelevant scenes are introduced, languish, and are forgotten. Time sequence and geography and character all blur into a fantastic, exciting, but extremely confusing montage. The Soviet literary critics rightly complained that there was a failure to distinguish between the March and October revolutions. No matter what the1
...next day she received a postcard from William James: Dear Miss Stein--I understand perfectly how you feel. I often feel exactly that way myself...
...Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling, who has often brooded about the problems of money and success in the business world, broods about the problems of money and success in the writing trade. With Art Carney, Katharine Bard, Jack Klugman, Bonita Granville...