Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a heart of gold is not so much that she is a cliche as that she cannot ply her trade. Action is busily evaded in stage business, and the talk drifts into the confessional memoirs of two strangers who have unaccountably shot past the handshaking stage. Ultimately, the strain of staying out of bed becomes more intense than the pleasure of getting into it. Thus the play is incessantly torn between farce and pathos, and each of the two key players marks out one of these modes and acts in it with splendid isolation...
...grossly inadequate arrangements, an average Governor spends roughly the first quarter of his administration learning the job and the last quarter trying to get re-elected to it, never leaving more than a year of effective performance. besides eliminating this evil, a four-year term would reduce the strain on the two major political parties and encourage the growth of minor ones...
House Bill 1382 would establish a joint ticket for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, another alleviation of the strain on the parties as well as the candidates and a basis for greater co-operation within the executive branch...
...which has a special meaning for anyone who has worked for him. It means to soothe, cajole, or con another; a talking-out-of, a sleight-of-mouth operation. During the six months the Lawrence crew spent in the desert, many a worker cracked, more from Sam-than sun-strain. A typical mutineer's speech: "I'm through. I've had it. I quit. I'm going to tell Sam he can take his bleeding, bloody picture and shove it. I'm getting out of here in the morning." But next morning the rebel would...
...another matter. It was a cantata called Sept Répons des Ténèbres, and it impressively proved that Poulenc's last year, like his other 45 as a composer, was blessed with exalted days. In Sept Répons, Poulenc resolved the devotional strain that runs through much of his music; the composition is a hymn for Holy Week that, as a French critic said after Poulenc's death, "springs from a soul taken by an ideal...