Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dialogue is the only source of interest. There is hardly a plot: a sick, lonely, old woman struggles along a road to meet her husband at the railroad station; they start off, then stop to wrangle and reminisce. As for characterization, the minor characters are mediocre comic types, and the old couple merely querulous and sad. Waiting for Godot was even more deficient in plot and character, as these terms are usually understood, but the newer work somehow misses the odd, grim delightfulness that exempted Godot from all the usual demands that are made on a play. All That Fall...
...bodyguard of Lancers in uniforms of scarlet, green and gold, drove by in his state coach to preside at a parade of Pakistan's military might, backed by contingents from fellow Baghdad Pact Members Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But beneath the brave fagade, Pakistan was a sick and sad nation...
This poorly written book is far less fascinating reading than Compulsion, Meyer Levin's bestselling fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb case (TIME. Nov. 12, 1956), which made Leopold "physically sick." In its own way. though, it may be more revealing...
Columnist O'Brian did not see it that way. "Remember, all this doesn't make me angry." he told an interviewer, "even though it's an attack. I think the whole thing is unhealthy. It's sick, that's what it is. Allen gets criticism and turns on the critic. You know what this all means, don't you? It means 'Jack O'Brian doesn't like my show.' " Would Critic O'Brian reply to Critic Allen in his daily column? Said he staunchly: "I'm not even...
...least not yet. The last ½? hike at custom smelters, in December, lasted only three weeks when the price dropped back, subsequently fell 2? more. Demand is still sluggish at the 25?-a-lb. level asked by major domestic producers, and Western Congressmen are still talking about a sick industry and pressing for a 4?-a-lb. tariff, placing the "peril point" where the tariff would go into effect at 30? (TIME, Feb. 10). While producers feel that the users' inventory liquidation is about over, higher copper prices can come only with a pickup in demand by major copper...