Word: profession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American youth. Nicholls told me that "one girl wrote in that it was a real copout" when he'd done a pimple commercial on television. I asked him how he felt. "Being here is copping out. Getting a paycheck every week is copping out if you want to profess the life that we profess onstage...
...cool, calculating charm of an accomplished womanizer. The woman he now wants, Mrs. Sullen (Maggie Smith), has had but one melancholy tutor: her husband. He is an alcoholic brute who keeps her in the country when her only heaven is London. As the chase quickens, the ladies profess virtues which they could scarcely wish to possess. The feint and parry of amour ends well, with the lout of a husband paid off for a divorce and the pairs of lovers united. One does not regret the convention that they will live happily ever after, but one does regret somewhat...
...also the first war in which we have eschewed some of our most powerful weaponry and destructive tactics even while employing more weaponry of penultimate efficacy than in any other of our wars to chew up the land and the inhabitants, civilian and military, whom we profess to be helping toward self-determination...