Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...related disease as "nervousness" ("go back to work") or "heart disease" ("go away"). A university scientist (serving, say, an "impartial" research foundation financed by corporations) can curiously come up with studies proving that a substance is harmless, even though a quarter of the workers at the factory making the stuff are dying of the same "mysterious" disease...
...example," Kilson explains, "the kinds of examples students produce to elaborate an argument or to explain a point is very different from the intellectual's examples. It's much more out of the stuff of lower-class and middle-class working people. For instance, there have been policemen in my class. Their knowledge of politics is unique--it adds to my own grasp of conflicts in urban political life...
...famous scene when he recites the Gettysburg Address, it's all one can do to keep it together--the feudal cloud breaks and Ruggles, head high, joins the ranks of people who are "equal," even teaching the Americans a little bit of European style along the way. Wonderful stuff. Edward Everett Horton was Ruggles in 1923, and Bob Hope's 1950 Fancy Pants took its cue from the story. But the real Ruggles was Charles Laughton in 1935--the one to be shown here--in a shambling, sad, brilliant performance...
Cuteness and perkiness are not the stuff of great or even good comedy. Real comedy always has a touch of insanity, and there's no madness at MTM. That enterprise is more a matter of computerized, businesslike calculation...
WHOEVER OUR AUTHOR is--the aging Watson or the youthful Meyer--he has created this tale out of the stuff of the traditional Holmes canon in a brilliant and startling fashion. The Reichenbach Falls death-struggle of the Final Problem has been elevated here to a hellish showdown above a train careening through the Bavarian mountainscape. The Moriarty mystique has been defused until it becomes simply Holmes's refracted trauma at having discovered two skeletons in his father's closet. And the story, with its pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing...