Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stout matron, slouched in a rear seat with lumpy plastic sacks packed against it. A younger woman staggered up the steps moaning, "God, I'm tired." So Stout, bridling at her gall, blurted, "Tired! What've you got to be tired about?" And the rest went sort of like this...
...conversational ingenuity sort of petered out after a study of the Olympic athletes displayed in the the sports section of a newpaper and a resort to numbers, as they jotted down the scores of various games for me. The train pulled into their station during a game of canasta, and they trooped off. Janev rushed back momentarily, to shake my hand and present me with a left-over tin of meat; and the conductor showed up to throw me out of first class, now that my escort was gone...
...dead; it isn't even past." Having recently moved North after a life spent mostly in the South, I find Northerners wondering why Southerners talk as if the past were real. I tell them that in the South, we have been busy for a long time trying to sort out the past worth keeping from the past worth getting rid of. It's a job that connects us with most of the world's people today-the vital business of achieving a particular identity in a plural world...
...same time, Carter has demonstrated many strengths to the panelists. Among them is the fact that he is a new face and his election would mean a change in Government. Said Gerald Levy, a college professor from Norfolk, Va.: "He's the sort of person who could run the Congress. He's not a party to the mess in Washington, scandals, Watergate." Added Opal Lafayette, a blue-collar Democrat from Flint, Mich.: "Carter knows what it is like to work, and we need somebody to understand the little...
Whether Jones, now revising his fourth play, A Place on the Magdalena Flats, has the depth to extend an attitude of compassion into a vision of tragedy remains to be seen. For now, he can write a superior version of the sort of modern folklore that makes Bobbie Gentry ballads. He has perfected a form of theater that plays like country-and-western without the music. This is no small achievement. In the present state of the American theater, it may even be enough...