Word: owed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think you owe the community an apology for the uncalled-for ruckus you have stirred up. You may be wise in Dogpatch, Mr. Capp; but your letter has shown that you are not at all wise in Massachusetts. Yours, CALDWELL TITCOMB
...moves on three different levels, the philosophic, the political, and the intimately personal; yet all three are perfectly fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme must owe something to Betti's lifelong career as a magistrate: it tells of the final human hunger to make sense of things--political catastrophies, the death of those we love--by restoring the concepts of guilt and innocence, punishment and choice, in all their dreadful nobility. Only by forcing the wedge...
...spending ways and his authoritarian habits. The palace noted that Feisal's new budget made inadequate provision for paying off retainers (and creditors), began denouncing Feisal as a penny pincher. King Saud himself took off on a tour among the desert sheiks, paying out blood money (sums Arabs owe for hurting, killing or maiming one another), passing out bank notes in the grand manner. This brought him squarely into conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, who is trying to substitute a modern budget for the royal private purse. Stiffly the King demanded fresh funds to replenish his overdraft, grown...
...kind of "super-intense patriotism" rather than a religion. "What Christians desire for their Jewish brethren is not so much conversion as continuation, a building onto their heritage, not a break with it. Religiously we all are Jews. It is intolerable that we should abandon those to whom we owe so much just at the border of our Promised Land...
...great accomplishment was to demolish the concept that a building should be a box. But his genius was prodigal. Any Wright house contained dozens of ideas that lesser men seized upon and made a style. There is hardly a modern house in the U.S. that does not owe at least some of its features to him. Among Wright innovations: the split-level living room, the open plan for house interiors, the corner picture window, modern radiant floor heating, the carport (he coined the name...