Word: professed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numbers were also used in company memos and letters addressed to executives at their private homes (e.g., one for G.E., two for Westinghouse. etc.). Said Trustbuster Bicks, testifying last week: "These men and these companies have in a true sense mocked the image of that economic system which we profess to the world...
Many other Porter critics, especially among businessmen who profess not to read her, apparently hold the view of Britain's renowned 18th century lexicographer and epigrammatist, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who felt that women ought to know better than to invade a male province and could only succeed there as a freak. "Sir," said Johnson, "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done...
Conformity v. Individualism, however seems much less a theme than a mere gimmick, exactly as picturing the bride as the Sleeping Beauty seems facile fancy rather than vital symbolism. Whatever the play may thematically profess, much of it theatrically is just old Wilde in new bottles: the triangle, in A Woman of No Importance, of the rich peer, the unwed mother and their son. Laurents' play substitutes beach-house manners for country-house ones; it speaks a livelier lingo in a much less melodramatic voice, and its Mrs. Grundy sports a Southern accent. But even Laurents' "The weak...
...week's end, negotiations were continuing, but both sides were in a pet and positions had hardened. Producers called the actors "unstable transient workers" and "gypsies." Since many of them profess liberal ideals, their position was uncomfortable. Wrote New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton: "The producers include a number of passionately devoted liberals beneath whose Stevenson buttons beat hearts that click like taxi meters...
...revolution and its all-important industrialization through vast suffering-suffering that can most easily be justified to the Chinese people by keeping them in terror of an "imperialist attack." And where Russia, with its vast industrial complexes, is highly vulnerable to nuclear war, Red China's leaders profess to believe that "after the next war, there will be 20 million Americans, 5,000,000 Englishmen, 50 million Russians, and 300 million Chinese...