Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edges, and she blinked back tears. Joan, whose life has been made miserable by a political role she neither sought nor was capable of handling, could no longer completely conceal her feelings. Said a longtime Washington friend who watched the drama on television: "You could feel her relief 500 miles away...
...final act. It is difficult to balance tragedy and comedy, and the play often lapses into a no-man's land somewhere in between. Kanin might do well to cut a scene or two. A scene with a visiting Zionist lecturer, for example, fails miserably. It neither provides comic relief nor advances the story...
...general, the avid eclecticism that marked Hirshhorn's collecting habits comes as a relief, despite the amount of rubbish. Too many museums collect in terms of a rigid historical theory; by reminding us of the innumerable and quirkish side channels away from the so-called "mainstream" of modern art, Hirshhorn has done the state a service. But this will only remain a virtue if the museum has generous funds to fill in the gaps; it would be fatal to treat it as a static monument to one man's taste...
...scholarship adjustment was made in reaction to inflation, Jewett said. "There was a feeling among many people" that the middle-income group needed some relief from the burdens of rising costs, he said...
...fourth serious Crimson threat was again sputtering to an end when suddenly, and dramatically, fullback Tom Lincoln took a screen pass from Holt and rumbled 27 yards for the score. As the Harvard crowd voiced its approval and relief, Tsitsos split the uprights for the PAT and Harvard led, 17-7. Holt then hooked up with McInally for the bomb that iced Harvard's first win of the season...