Word: suppliant
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...Harvard and eventually athletic director. In a retrospective that appeared in the Crimson in 1927, he noted that in the absence of a mask he "was accustomed to bite upon a large rubber eraser, to prevent dental demolition, with a surreptitious supplementary duplicate to lend to envious and suppliant professional backstops. But this was the principle concession made for defensive armor...
...time when women were perceived as gentle suppliant chattels, Ibsen was probing the feminine psyche in depth. Ellida (Vanessa Redgrave) is an Ibsen heroine who finds herself. She owes much to a husband, Wangel, who is patient, wise and totally generous, precisely those qualities that Nora's husband, in A Doll's House, lacked. Ellida is tormentedly neurotic. She is the doctor's second wife, and she married him for financial security, not love...
...President jeopardized his standing with part of his own constituency. Conservatives complained that he seemed to have gone too far without a promise of getting much in return. By making such a show of praising his hosts, he cast himself in the role of a suppliant. By appearing to be granted an interview with Mao Tse-tung rather than getting one as a matter of course, he seemed to accept a status lesser than that of the chairman...
...comfortable armchair while awaiting an expense-account lunch guest is apt to assume a straighter posture in an identical chair when protesting outrageous alimony demands. Waiting for the P.T.A. meeting to begin, he sprawls. Waiting for the loan officer to finish a phone call, he assumes the well-known suppliant's crouch, a kind of sidesaddle, lock-kneed pose designed to convey simultaneously fiscal responsibility and abject need...
...suppliant did come to Harvard, and fifty years after he wrote this letter he is back in Boston with A Touch of the Poet at the Charles Play-house. Although Poet so dissatisfied O'Neill during his lifetime that he did not publish it, the Charles has done a magnificent job of minimizing its problems, and of bringing the great artistry that the play does possess to life...