Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This harsh, shrill, constantly-hammering quality in Brecht's writing has led Alex Horn, who directed, to impose upon his cast a degree of rough broadness in their playing that they cannot convincingly sustain. Ray Reinhardt plays Puntila with considerable authority (he can actually look like a dying deer while somebody is telling him not to); Anne Meara as his daughter has a high-spirited charm that shines out of everything she does. But even they have strained and labored moments, and certain minor cast members have no moments of any other kind. John Lasell plays the hired man with...
...course, Natural Sciences 4, Nash assigned a term paper months before it was due, asking students to prepare a rough draft and consult him. "Out of about 10 students," he said, "only five ever showed up, and many probably didn't begin preparation until the day before...
...from the start the open hearing was unexpectedly rough. Out of the blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used...
...secret society of juvenile delinquents called Bundes Heimattreuer Jugend had bigger ambitions. Last week they raided the B.H.J., seized arms and explosives and uncovered plans to dynamite the Italian embassy as a means of aggravating the Austro-Italian dispute over South Tyrol ; the young thugs also planned to rough up delegates to the Communist World Youth Festival in July. Police arrested 18 members, including 27-year-old Ringleader Gustav Etzelt. Significantly, most of the arrested young neo-Nazi hooligans were in their early 20s, too young really to know what the Hitler era had been like...
None of the published stories, though, came up to the statement composed by the self-styled "old cracked-up Irish ruin" himself before he went under the knife. "Mentally, I'm a mess. You've heard of mixed emotions? Man, this is rough . . . If it's a benign tumor of some sort, hurray for our side-no more sweat. If the damn thing is malignant, cancerous, then there's real trouble . . . Never felt better in my life. Then, boom: this horrible, skulking 'thing' visible only as a ghostly shadow on an X-ray negative...