Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply as a foretoken of what was to come or as raw material for the plays. Even minor figures often have a Dickensian vividness. Each romantic indiscretion has its own distinct flavor; Holroyd pinpoints which of Shaw's innumerable affairs he believes were consummated, and quotes bawdy letters in proof. Even more precisely evoked are Shaw's nonsexual passions for comrades in causes, from his schoolmate Matthew McNulty to his literary ally William Archer and his Fabian Society partner Sidney Webb. In a review, Shaw urged authors to shape their stories to suit their characters, rather than vice versa. Holroyd...
...used adjective about a candidate is the most accurate: patrician. Courteous and deferential, he wears his down-home credentials as discreetly as the LMB monograms that dot the breast pockets of his fine cotton shirts. As a campaigner, he is like a good tire: durable, road-tested, puncture-proof. But no one would ever describe him as electrifying: he often seems to be moving and speaking in slow motion. Unlike many men in public life, he looks his age, a weathered 67. His sense of humor is as dry as a prairie breeze. In the operating room of a hospital...
...difference between heaven and earth. The situation has completely changed. The proof is the loud attack in parliament on failed reforms and the resignation of the government. This was the effect of our efforts at negotiating. Communism is stuck. We must change it. It may be very dangerous, and it may cost us a lot. But the epoch requires...
...proof he offers some 96 varied testimonies dealing with postponed or fulfilled aspirations. A Minnesota beef farmer decides that America's problems are created by "Zionists . . . I believe they want to set up a messianic kingdom, with them as masters and the rest of us as slaves." Jean Gump, a quiet Roman Catholic grandmother, protests the presence of an Army missile site in Missouri and pays for her convictions by becoming No. 03789-045 in a West Virginia prison...
...kids with three different mothers, the criminals who sell drugs and shoot each other in alleys, the high-school dropouts who work anonymous jobs and live in anonymous sections of the cities. Some of them are the success stories unnecessarily pointed to by well-meaning white liberals as "proof" that some Blacks can become useful members of society. In reality, they are individual men who have done nothing more than follow the different motivating factors that life has presented them...