Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presents a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence, together with the sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations of the Second Continental Congress. With a practically nonexistent musical score, the show brings the heroic, tempestuous birth of a nation down to a feeble vaudevillian jape. One need pay no heed to the fact that it won a Tony award, but some playgoers apparently still...
...preparation, the blacks might not have to use guns, and students could use the university for its intended purposes. If the taxpayers refuse to support the universities, as you suggest [May 9], then a double loss will be incurred. First, education will be stifled. Second, an important source of protest against the ills we've all been made aware of will be shut off. Right now, the best tax bargain for my money is all that is spent for education at all levels...
...Second, Ford abstracts and ennobles dramatic action by formalizing it. An archetypal Ford image from Stagecoach (1939) through 7 Women is the Full Shot of a vast plain or prairie with a horse soldier (or vehicle) traversing it in a rigidly straight line, as if kept to a defined path by invisible walls. To return to our last reel of Shark Island, when Mudd wakes up the cannoneers, they bolt into sitting position on their bunks in unison, as if a single string controlled them all; the sense of formation is carried through to the end when the prison commander...
Sensing a disastrous collision fractions of a second before it might have occurred, he pulled Arts and Letters from the gap between Majestic Prince and Al Hattab just as Majestic Prince bore out and closed the space between horses. He checked his horse so smoothly and so expertly that there did not seem to be any cause for concern...
...Baeza reacted a fifth of a second more slowly, the 94th Preakness field might have been sprayed all over the track. Baeza rides cleanly, says little, and seldom claims foul. With a run-of-the-mill reinsman an accident would have been a strong possibility and the foul claim inevitably sustained. Unfortunately, Baeza was victimized by his own greatness...