Word: pose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wouldn't want to pose as a religious thinker," he says. "I'm more or less a shady type improvising his way from book to book and trying to get up in the morning without a toothache. At one time I held very
...level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
...reach. Each side was determined to yield nothing in advance, and each was probing for an opening that would lead to a position of strength. Lyndon Johnson characteristically described the situation in the midst of a conversation in his White House office. Striking a prizefighter's pose, he said: "I'm holding my left hand open and out in front of me, saying, 'Come on, let's talk...
...pose had a certain drama about it. But the noisy dispute over a site where American and North Vietnamese negotiators could meet for preliminary talks recalled what the late John Foster Dulles said in 1954 about negotiating with Asian Communists: "Progress is always slow and seldom spectacular...
Play does have a sound-dramatic structure, but it somehow fails to involve the audience in the problem it seeks to pose. Hart doesn't really speak his mind until past the half-way point. By then it's too late to build suspense, and the action gallops along at a choppy, unconvincing pace. Much of the dialogue aims to display the character's materialism with irrelevant wisecracks, most of which are not too amusing and some of which are completely unessential. If Hart cut down the jokes and added to the credibility and development of his central issue, Play...