Word: shove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast, built and rehearsed in New York before a brief trial fling on the road, the Theater of Michigan will cast all of its plays, build its sets, rehearse, and hold tryouts in Detroit, then bring the wrapped package to the west end of the Holland Tunnel and shove it through. "Imagine a prosperous Broadway,"* Scott expands, "supported some day by the Theater of Michigan, the Theater of Kentucky, the Theater of Kansas, and so on. Then we'll have the Theater of the U.S.A...
...second difficulty is outlining. In order to keep the question and scratch paper in front of you, it is necessary to shove the typewriter to one side or to change seats. A third possibility, writing while leaning to the left, can be used on shorter tests...
...didn't completely squelch the proposal, however. Since it is so far into reading period already, and since most people don't really care enough to fight about the issue right now, she said that in Briggs Hall the matter would ride until spring. "I'm not about to shove that petition around now," she stated...
Last week in Miami the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools gave them a hard shove in that direction. The South's accrediting agency had previously rated white colleges as "A" or out, and Negro colleges as "A," "B" or "C"-allowing Negro colleges to be both approved and mediocre. Now, all Southern campuses will be on the same standard, giving 65 Negro colleges full and equal responsibility for excellence. Last week 33 won accreditation, 24 will get a second chance, and eight were banished. Among the castoffs: both public Negro campuses in Alabama, a state that refuses...
...Quite simply, the incidents and the monologues are the author's life (metaphorically if not literally) and are designed only to reveal him. Miller's personality is the sum and essence of his book. It is a terribly vivid personality. And if we give up the vain attempt to shove his book similiar pigeon-hole labelled "nihilist" or "ash-can school," we find that he is a most and profound...