Word: sillier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second prologue that he wrote in 1912 in the form of a sermon delivered by the god Ra to the audience: "Men twenty centuries ago were already just such as you, and spoke and lived as ye speak and live, no worse and no better, no wiser and no sillier." And in a postscriptal Note to the play Shaw said, "The notion that there has been any ... Progress since Caesar's time ... is too absurd for discussion" (but he goes on to discuss it anyhow...
...audibly to stay in tune, but for all his trouble he was consistently flat; occasional sounds had no pitch at all. In the simplest pieces he was mildly affecting, but whatever he thought should be grandiose was rendered with grunts, gasps, bodily jerks, and fierce glances that are even sillier in recital than they are on stage...
...Nothing makes a man look sillier than...
Petulant Purge. By then, the whole affair was beginning to look more than a little silly. It got even sillier. With straight-faced pride, the Tribune announced that 43 persons had offered to pay for gift subscriptions to the White House. Reporter Wise, presumably under orders, handed Salinger a contraband copy of the Tribune. But Salinger set it aside unopened, to defend the boss's right not to read any paper he likes. "The First Amendment to the Constitution grants the right of the press to print what it wants," said Salinger solemnly, "and the right of readers...
...remake of Horsemen. With the help of Director Vincente Minnelli (Gigi), eight big-name players (Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, Karl Boehm, Paul Henreid) and a $6,000,000 budget, the new production manages in several respects to be even sillier than...