Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiarity with Freud and psycho-analysis, and the objectivity resulting from his being the only non-Continental, non-Jewish member of the psycho-analytic movement, combine to render him an almost ideal biographer. In addition, he writes well and clearly, and his syntheses of Freud's ideas are nothing short of brilliant...
Since the program began, in June, 1956, White said, "$22 million has been pitched into the barn, and that isn't hay." He expects the fund to reach $30 million in an extremely short time "if all pledges now made come through in writing...
...idea, suggested of course by the success of Kind Hearts and Coronets, was to be killingly funny, but this time the whimsy is too flimsy. The rich uncle of the title (Charles Coburn) pays a visit to his nephew-(Nigel Patrick), a spectacularly impecunious peer - long on tradition and short on port. Wouldn't dream of "imposing" on his uncle for a loan. Heavens, no. Only decent thing to do is to murder the old boy. But every time the nephew baits a trap, who gets caught? The paying customer...
...diverse figures as Shaw and Hemingway, Van Gogh and T. S. Eliot, by casting them in the role of questing near-metaphysicians at the bedside of modern man. The tragic dilemma, as Wilson developed it, was that the Outsider had outdistanced the comforting illusions of everyday society while falling short of the luminous serenity...
Brown scored once again, midway in the second quarter, before the Crimson was able to muster anything even approaching an offensive threat. Dick McLaughlin finally got the varsity rolling just before the half, when he completed six short passes in a row to various Crimson receivers; but the half ended with the home team still 35 yards from the Brown goal-line...