Word: slaying
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...Misalliance, first produced in 1910, St. George Bernard Shaw goes forth to slay the dragon of family life with his own jawbone. The two renowned fathers in the play are exposed as shameless old rips, their sons and daughters as scamps with serpents' teeth. The emancipated heroine, Hypatia Tarleton, says, "I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad. I want to be an active verb.'' Actually, she and the others are passive wordlings caught in a brilliant, bottomless Edwardian conversation pit. But if the people are stationary, the props are animated...
...terms of dogma but in terms of human experience. Dr. Kaplan has no patience, for instance, with the ancient doctrine of the Jews as God's chosen people; he banishes this from Reconstructionist education with the same gusto that he eliminated a "bloodthirsty" Jehovah who would slay the Egyptians' firstborn...
...admirer has died, another is on the verge of suicide. Her task is made easy by the trifling competition of U.S. women, who, though pretty, "were devoid of fragrance like immortelles, coarsened into mannishness by some deep disappointment, and hostile to the male." Jacquemar, no Bellerophon, is unable to slay this particular Chimera. He falls hopelessly in love with Gabrielle and is endlessly deceived. Watching as she frolics with a farm boy, Jacquemar thinks: "The bitch is democratic." Age, status or wealth mean nothing to her "so long as she can do harm...
...opposed the committee. Yale's conservative Calliopean Society, nurtured by that angry Yale Locke, William F. Buckley Jr., author of the apopemptic God and Man at Yale and now editor of the National Review, has a waiting list. Buckley himself has become the polemicist who sallies forth to slay the liberal likes of Harvard Historian Arthur Schlesinger...
When Susanne began first grade in a regular school, only her mother's iron persistence kept her there. Ruth Slay drove to the school three times a day-once to deliver Susanne, once to help her go to the cafeteria, finally to bring her home. The child made little progress...