Word: suppliants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...hours, the Amman radio had readied the nation for "an announcement of happy and private news." But when Jordan's King Hussein took the microphone, his tone was suppliant and defensive. "I have all my life, my brethren, hidden my worries, my problems and cares from you," he said, "wearing a smile on my face which never knew its way into my heart." The truth was far different. "I know loneliness eating my days and nights. I feel my spirit tearing and burning in a fire of gloomy loneliness and pitiful isolation. I needed affection." Then the 25-year...
...within two days Macmillan's carefully wrought compromise shattered on the intransigent arrogance of Eric Louw. Calling a press conference (for white reporters only), Louw aggressively announced, "I have come to London neither as an accused nor as a penitent nor as a suppliant." and added that his government saw "no reason for any basic change" in its racial policies. That afternoon, when Louw took the same line at his promised informal meeting with the Prime Ministers, Malaya's normally genial Tengku Abdul Rahman walked out in a rage, called his own press conference to announce: "I shall...