Word: remarkes
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...walked into the Loeb Ex Thursday night determined not to compare John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger with Liz Coe's production. After all, it was Osborne himself who thought that critics have continually overemphasized the social and historical values of his work. In an oft-repeated remark, he stated that his purpose was to make the audience "feel" something-and think about it afterwards...
...naturally had trouble with the birth so she and Billy wouldn't be able to have any more kids soon, gracious, lovely Patty said to me after the pep rally, while she was walking arm in arm with Bill (Porky) while Bill was still laughing about the coach's remark about the reason for putting me at split end, Patty looked me right in the eye and said...
Witty and intellectual as always, McCarthy dazzled and charmed the crowd with his jibes at Nixon, Humphrey, Johnson, and other villains. But the remark which drew the loudest ovation was the one clothed in bloody rhetoric: "It's too bad we don't have a substitute for the medieval practice. Then, if you had counselor who gave bad advice, the custom was to execute them. The practice now is to give them welcome sanctuary in the academic community...
...jump in gross national product, to $1,065 billion for the year. The debate intensified last week as Administration officials testified before the congressional Joint Economic Committee and encountered skepticism even from some Republican members. Representative Barber Conable of New York said that the forecast reminded him of a remark by an anthropologist friend: "The Zuñis realized that the rain dance didn't bring the rain, but it made the tribe feel better...
...American American novelist. His method is oldfashioned, gulp-and-sob realism. His characters-most frequently, of late, the American newly rich who took the cash and let the culture go-are presented pretty much in their own words. The result often brings to mind Nancy Mitford's unkind remark that citizens of the U.S. speak English as if wrestling with a foreign tongue. That confronts the thoughtful pro-Jones reader with a dilemma. If Jones takes these clichés seriously, can he be any smarter than the people he writes about? If he doesn...