Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steven Aaron, as a gouty old gossip, is another worthy addition to the destructive drawing room. But once the good tempered malice of Lady Teazle is allowed to take control of the play, the sinner's circle must suffer and with them some of Sheridan's best effects. Though the friendly barbs in the Sneerwell drawing-room provide a vastly enjoyable visit, the play might also have retained its cutting edge to good purpose...
...flash cards. Though her words had more conviction in later scenes, there remained the disturbing sense that she was hearing the director: "six steps to the left; wring hands." Miss Jones as Miss Jones learning a part has neither charm nor authority, and however much the role might suffer from over-acting, it dies when played hesitantly. In fumbling hands, the tragedy of Isabel is all too simple: she is a ninny...
...Martin? Or Franklin Roosevelt? Or Emily Post? Or Freud? As for my friends and me, words failed us. Neither our education nor our experience nor our principles had prepared us for this encounter. Ours is, indeed, a rich and wonderful country-glamorous beyond belief. A bum can no longer suffer mere misfortune; he must be "rolled by a beautiful call girl." And he is not friendless. Far from it; he has only to appear in Wall Street to have his credit and identity restored. I returned to my office filled with awe. What dreams we Americans can dream...
...Lewis '55, Chairman of its dance Committee, said yesterday. "I don't see how you can reasonably limit the number of couples on an interchangeable ticket basis," he stated. "Furthermore, without the incentive of competition, there would be a tendency, at least, for the quality of the dance to suffer...
...good clean fun and loud laughter, and that neither money nor sex ever appealed to her. After a half-hour chat with Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis murmured to Elsa what she took to be "a passing grade" in emotional development: "A healthy woman who will never suffer from neuroses...