Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hurdle. Wilson admitted that there would be problems and sacrifices. Britain's cost of living would jump, but Wilson claimed that the rise would be only an acceptable 2% to 3½%. In answer to concern that the country's balance of payments would suffer because of new investments in Europe, Wilson insisted that foreign investment in Britain would more than make up the difference. As for the Common Market's high-price agricultural policy, he simply said that Britain would have to come to terms with...
...report showed that 2,100,000 welfare cases are over 65 and most of these are women; 700,000 suffer severe physical handicaps such as blindness; 3,500,000 are under 18, and 83% of these are under 14; the remaining 900,000 women and 150,000 men answering the welfare roll call are the indigent parents of these children...
...Galileo is a glutton of food, wine and ideas. As one character says, he has "thinking bouts." As Brecht sees it, this very appetite is Galileo's fatal flaw. His desire to save his skin ranks above any devotion to a pure priesthood of science, any will to suffer death for the truths he had discovered...
...Bogarde in the central role, Accident is a flawed work. The fault is largely that of Scriptwriter Harold Pinter (The Homecoming). His customarily cryptic dialogue probes too deeply, revealing all of the characters' inner anxiety and guilt, almost none of their outward life and feeling. Although they suffer from pangs of the flesh, they seem to be skeletal symbols rather than passionate human beings, not truly moving or fully alive. Accident ultimately suggests a tragedy that has been recorded not by a camera but by an X-ray machine...
...wish it were closer to perfect. For instance, this and every other House production needs, but never gets, ingenious, imaginative lighting effects to help out the necessarily modest sets. (On the Town's sets, designed by W. Chappell and Michael Dyett, feature a clevel mosaic New York Skyline but suffer from being too close to the audience--which is why some brilliant lighting might help...