Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Palma Carlos quit, saying: "I cannot come to terms with the situation in which we find ourselves, of disorder in the streets, lack of social discipline and the invasion of public buildings . . . The climate of indiscipline is contrary to my temperament and to my idea of what democracy should be." The blame, he added, belonged to the Council of State, which Palma Carlos called "a higher body than the provisional government. It has a strong military representation, and they imposed their point of view...
Scarcely less Foxy than Karrell are the salesmen at Lou Tannen's magic shop. All are masters at the special effect of separating an onlooker from his money. "We have kids come in here who never quit buying," says Tony Spina. "Twelve-, 14-year-olds think nothing of spending $50, $100 on magic. Anything new becomes an instant sellout...
...meaning and tension through its trivial irrelevance and presents a challenge of interpretation which the production meets. Dealing with an obvious though not unambiguous "message play," the Loeb group meets the problem of getting the message across without hammering it in. Odets-a short-term Communist Party member who quit because of the party's doctrinaire artistic strictures-may have been, as he later said, a naive radical. But the play's point is, if simple, nonetheless vibrant and valid for the historical moment which inspired it and for today. As Odets told the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...figuratively, is where the thirties settings stay, unpretentious, accessory: a blurry old Coke sign reminded me how much more obtrusive the nostalgia bit is in some other recent films, say Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us with its repeated Coke signs and radio soundtrack that just won't quit...
...Harvard, he was named the youngest member of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest in 1970, but soon joined the White House enemies list for wondering aloud whether Nixon's reference to "campus bums" had encouraged the killings at Kent State. Democrat Rhodes soon afterward quit his studies and in 1972 won election to the state legislature from Pittsburgh. He is virtually assured of re-election this year...