Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare to bolster his pride, yet forces his daughter to work as a waitress. When he swaggers out to challenge a rich Yankee who has insulted his family, he is beaten into the dust by servants, and his dream world shatters. His daughter, who has ridiculed his false life, is horrified at the change in her defeated...
...best thing in the book is Low's shoptalk, e.g., his irritation with Churchill because a pink-and-sandy man cannot be properly rendered in black and white. The worst is an occasional resemblance to that dreary form of literature, the theatrical reminiscence. His pride rings out most clearly when he recounts how heads of state sent emissaries to his studio to ask for originals of his caricatures to decorate the walls of their vanity. This may help explain how the boy radical became a sort of licensed jester at the court of his political enemies. Even "Colonel Blimp...
...some of Bradley's stars were students not only of such esoteric subjects as music appreciation and square dancing but also point-shaving for gamblers, had Bradley sent a team east from Peoria to try its luck in the N.I.T. Determined to bring back Bradley's basketball pride, the team had started off with a Garden scoring record by trouncing Xavier 116-81, toying with Temple 94-66 to reach the final...
Lael Tucker pleads a moral cause: a kind of private euthanasia, her husband's "right to die as he wished to, when he chose." She knows that this claim is based on pride: several times during the last painful months, the Wertenbakers gaily toasted what they called their hubris, a word which they thought defined their own gallant pagan defiance of fate. Each reader will have to judge the moral issue for himself; the real significance lies in the fact that, in this book, the issue is only seen in terms of responsibility to oneself and to other human...
Every member of the board takes pride in the general excellence of the first year of the Cambridge Drama Festival. We are not unreasonably pleased with that achievement, however, and can see room for improvement in future, should circumstances make the continuance of the Festival possible. As members of the board, professors Levin, Brower and I are anxious for the financial as well as for the artistic success of the Festival. We do not like to be blamed for the failure of a cause we have done our best to further. Robert Chapman, Associate Professor of English...