Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Written as a novel in 1946, Beckett's Mercier and Camier is stillborn in its transition to drama at Joseph Papp's Green wich Village Public Theater. One can understand what impelled Adapter Neumann's strenuous and occasionally imaginative effort, since the book was, essentially, Waiting for Godot in its earliest and distinctly embryonic state. The two title characters (Frederick Neumann and Bill Raymond) are as close as barstool buddies, and they stumble and blather about in a bleak inscape of metaphysical despair. Despite intermittent japery, they are triste, petulant atheists who resent the fact that they...
...North Atlantic Treaty Organization received a thorough physical and psychological checkup last week and was found to be less than robust at age 30. The general diagnosis: flabby nuclear muscle and a creeping inferiority complex. The prognosis: satisfactory recovery only if it undertakes strenuous, and expensive, new body building...
...become, in the past 25 years, one of the most accessible of all living .U.S. poets. Her works have appeared nearly everywhere, from the quarterlies and The New Yorker to the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune Magazine. Such popularity does not come free. At her least strenuous, Swenson picks up quotidian chatter and reproduces...
...with yellow, red and green stripes and a coat of many colors. He is notoriously thin-skinned in dealing with rivals. Says a former colleague: "Muzorewa is at his best as a preacher and at his worst as a Cardinal." Though a reluctant politician at first, he waged a strenuous campaign, traveling around the country for an average of five or six appearances a day. At these he would hold forth on his ideas about building a new country "without friction" and pass out buttons bearing the U.A.N.C. Slogan WE'RE THE WINNERS...
...then assistant dean of the College and now dean of students; F. Skiddy von Stade '37, then dean of freshmen; and W.C. Burris Young '55, a freshman senior adviser and now associate dean of freshmen. Most of the administrators put up some resistance--Epps's was reported to be strenuous--but the students held the building...