Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooper was the only candidate to reach the quota in the first round of voting Cooper, who was anxious to give credit "to all those people who trooped out to ring door bells and miss their dinners for me," urged Harvard students to take an interest in public education...
Nine fir-lined peaks ring the town...
Nora as heroine is defenseless and lovable but tries our patience. She hasn't an ounce of spunk--an unfortunate deviation from the Gothic tradition. Asking for a joint bank account becomes a crisis of independence. After being robbed of her wedding ring and wristwatch, she wonders whether the event was unreal or surreal. Our sympathy for Nora is further lessened by Schwamm's emphasis on Nora's contradictory and oppressive wealth. It is hard to feel for the frenzy of the poor little rich girl when it is described in terms of "her pulse...beating against the hammered gold...
...grammar school classroom. The typical company--by now a familiar fixture in anti-war plays--consists of mute "idiots" and insubordinate and sharp-witted soldiers who clown around until, inevitably, one of them dies. As the characters have been seen before, the lines, too, have a certained hackneyed ring: "We're a peace-loving people and that's why we are going to bomb Constantinople off the map." "It's not our's to reason why. It's yours to do as you're told--and die," and of course, "Who's really in charge and who's really responsible...
...complaint of a maiden aunt (Barbara Nathan). "There's no more space here for these flowers," she laments, looking around at the polished, unoccupied tabletops of the Quincy JCR. "So many people have sent flowers already." In later scenes Hedda's envious comments about Mrs. Elvsted's long hair ring oddly when directed at Gray, whose hair is short; the hapless Gray is forced to cry. "Let me go, let me go" at a Hedda who is supposedly grasping her by the hair and threatening to "burn it off," while Cohen barely touches her. Most incomprehensibly, Lovborg's all-important...