Word: stoop
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...company director Van McLeod seems to be trying unnecessarily for the oblique angle in an already oblique Brecht play. A few of the supporting characters present fascinating facades, especially Virginia O. Casey as the whorish girl friend of George Garga the librarian (and "wrestler") and Bruce Patt as a stoop-kneed, brutish Weimar version of Skinny, a Chinese clerk according to the text--but they get little assistance even from the more experienced members of the cast...
...national consciousness that its themes are in soap operas and newspaper comic strips. Orphan Annie, a Right-minded strip distributed by the pro-Nixon New York News Inc., recently made the point that a man'of high principles-like Daddy Warbucks or, by implication, Richard Nixonwould never stoop to authorize a burglary...
...match, Dan "Boom-Boom" Steiner, sometime general counsel to the University, halted proceedings in order to present the Radcliffe squad with two dozen long-stemmed red roses. This gesture is indicative of the paternalistic sexism that Harvard has long been a party to. That the Harvard Administration should stoop to such depths in order to perpetuate its outdated beliefs is reprehensible in an academic community, and in 1973, a supposed age of enlightenment, we condemn...
...silver-haired old man, tall but slightly stoop-shouldered, rocked back and forth in an ancient chair at the center of the stage. His desk near by was piled high with printer's galleys and papers. He was finishing a dreamlike trip through his childhood, the final moment in a two-hour monologue on slavery, war and American history. From a packed audience at New York's Town Hall, a voice asked, "Mr. Douglass, what do we do? What...
More than 30 years ago, TIME noted that "7,000,000 radio fans would find life harder to bear without Vic and Sade." Now, for all of us who regularly turned to the RCA Little Nipper or Philco Super Heterodyne ("No stoop, no squat, no squint"), it is time for nostalgic celebration. Vic, Sade and Rush Gook are back, along with Uncle Fletcher, Blue Tooth Johnson, Mr. Gumpox, and all those great everyday people who lived somewhere west of Dismal Seepage, Ohio, and east of Sweet Esther, Wis. As for the young, who may have wondered about cryptic...