Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impossibility of keeping every living human soul psychologically conditioned simultaneously. In history up to date, there has been no schooling that has been able to guarantee to tyrants that their subjects will not revolt at last at some intolerable turn of the screw. The revolting-point may be reached sooner in Irishmen than in Germans, and sooner in Germans than in Russians or in Chinese; but in all human beings, hitherto, there has always been a point at which the worm has turned. Even when we have made all allowance for the application of new psychological techniques in the service...
...like position, arise, involve, in connection with, issue, consideration, and factor-a disposition, for instance, to 'admit with regret the position which has arisen in connection with,' rather than to make the effort to tell the reader specifically what is admitted with regret." An official would far sooner say, "With reference to your claim, I have to advise you that before same is dealt with . . ." than "Before I can deal with your claim. " He says predecease for die before, it is apprehended that for 7 suppose, and it will be observed from a perusal of for you will...
...sided World Series was no sooner over than the hot-stove league got off to a flying start. In the front offices of baseball, the moneymen began shifting managers so fast that a man hardly had time to read the small type in his contract; a fan could spend all winter wondering what had happened to his team. Among the changes...
...quarter-miler or just a social climber. Comes the dawn, and the "lone eagles" turn into "a covey of sitting ducks." One of them also turns into a dead pigeon. The others boozing, cynical or hitting the Prufrock-bottom of resignation-live by remembering. Almost everybody sooner or later tries to shoot himself or else to write a book. Promising Author Morris (The Works of Love, The Deep Sleep) writes with an almost British smoothness-ex cept when he lapses into a stream-of-consciousness cablese that makes him sound like a Western Union clerk on the analyst...
...great trouble with the great Irish writers is that they make Irishmen seem like nobody else at all. That, as James Joyce, Sean O'Casey and a dozen others have proved, is fine up to a point, but sooner or later even the most sympathetic reader gets tired of a literary chosen people. Short Story Writer Frank O'Connor has a nice way of making his people look, feel and sound like anyone else. Any reader might find himself saying: there but for lack of poteen, a certain uneasiness about sex and a wary relationship with the parish...