Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for a villain, if it fails elsewhere, can always rely on the speculators to conveniently stand as whipping boys for public indignation. The moral implication always runs, "Had it not been for their greed..." But even the speculators can be excused. Greed and avarice are fairly common human motivations, and it is a bit foolish--as well as futile--to ask financiers to exercise exemplary moral restraint...
...letter also states that the students "demand a definitive vote on the Faculty stand by the end of the Dec. 12 meeting...
...Keller, number one foil man on Harvard's fencing team after his loss to an underdog Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute foilman on Thursday. "You just don't know how a poor fencer will react--whether he will spot your fake and react as you would expect or just stand there...
Gloomy isn't it? But de Ghelderode's gleefully ironic language and vibrant, Dickensian characters make Pantagleize a powerful play no matter which side of the barricades you stand on. Gordon Ferguson's Chaplinesque portrayal of Pantagleize, probably de Ghelderode's finest creation, contributes a giant share to making Dunster House's production a rousing and boisterous, though imperfect, success...
...prove literally disarming, especially if touched by a new spirit of community. This is an extremely attractive premise, and the production earns credit as fine didactic theatre: tonic but never argumentative. But it is also an important premise, and an arguable one. Like all didactic art, this Schweyk must stand on the force with which it advances its object lesson, and its simple success as theater...