Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot be understood; it cannot be judged; it cannot be solved. It can only be experienced. But Rattigan, alas, is no Chekhov. As time runs out, he quite shamelessly gives the public what it wants, and begs the vital questions at the heart of the drama: Why do men sit down to the feast of life at separate tables? What is the meaning of the fatal separateness of human lives? And yet, the film will probably be received by millions of moviegoers as an unusually thoughtful and mature examination of these questions...
...truism of liberal democracy that a minority party should play the critic for the political drama. Yet even gadflies lose their sting when they run away from politics, sit dumbly as the majority perpetrates folly, or cry wolf long after the sheep have been killed. From now until 1960, Bowles maintains, the Deemocrats must persistently repudiate the Administration's blunders in foreign and domestic affairs with eloquence and determination, yet at the same time set forth constructive, intelligent, and fore-sighted alternatives...
...curled up in her arms and finally fell asleep. Last week Jane's shrimpish little face, once twisted with rage, beamed mischievously as she and Maggie sat on the floor, playing a private game of their own. For the first time, Jane was chattering spontaneously: "Come here, Maggie. Sit down...
...special privilege of the position of teacher as a vehicle for sensationalism; the effect upon teachers when they learned that the exchange of confidence between educators . . . can no longer be safely indulged in; the effect upon a community of the realization that the teachers with whom their children sit may be consciously concerned not with the solving of educational problems but rather with the stimulating of them for the purpose of cheap exploitation." The board's solemn summing up of Allen's trespasses: "Their seriousness in terms of a threat to our American way of life is certainly...
Manolete was a significant man. And that is why one can sit through a hundred minutes of drivel movie to see fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...