Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arch ex-wife seeks him out with the news that she plans to remarry. Students descend on him for tutorials, inundate him with papers like "Hate and Redemption in A Winter's Tale. "Edna Shaft (Jessica Tandy) is upset because Butley(Alan Bates) encouraged a student to quit one of her stifling seminars. Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan), a junior member of the department, is planning to move in with his lover, Reg, whom Butley disdains. This news stirs not only jealousy but whole psychic subcurrents of his own unresolved homosexuality. Butley counterattacks this battalion of woes with...
...Before I came I decided I had to do something," Horton said yesterday. He added that he quit smoking a week ago, which he said he had started during March hour exams...
...watched closely. But even when a chorus of women sing "Those romantic young boys, all they ever want to do is fight," it conveys a soft ironic criticism which runs through the whole album, up to the point where Springsteen tells a girl friend "you oughtta quit this scene...
Disillusioned, he quit...
...Dayan dilemma, Mrs. Meir later confided to intimates, gave her an excuse to quit a job that she never wanted in the first place. "Even had Dayan told me that he was quitting, I would have resigned," she insisted. Indeed, even if the Dayan issue had never arisen, Mrs. Meir would likely have been pressured out of a post that she perhaps had held too long...