Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this reason, Stuffy said last night that he probably would use top hurler Ira Godin in the New Haven game. "I'm not sure yet--and won't be until tomorrow; but I think we'll use Barry Turner against Tufts and here again on Class Day, and pitch Ira on Monday...
...acting. But at least he will get plenty of advice. The Daily News's John Chapman spoke for the other critics: "Man and boy, I've been telling Johnson and [Giulio] Gatti-Casazza before him how to run the opera house, and you don't think I'm going to stop just because Bing is going...
...Compton-Burnett needs is the chance to reveal what she is really interested in revealing-the vices, virtues and idiosyncrasies of human behavior. To this end, too, the people in her novels talk all the time but never talk naturally: unlike real people they always say just what they think, and mean just what they say; when they fail to do so, there is always someone close at hand to do it for them, grimly. Thus, at its best, a Compton-Burnett novel is like an iceberg whose normally concealed 90% has risen to the surface-something apt to make...
...withering-away of Stanley Banks began the moment his daughter Kay told him that she was engaged. " 'Well, to begin with,' he gasped a little hysterically, 'who the hell is this Buckley anyway, and where the hell does he come from-and who does he think is going to support him? If it's me he's got another guess coming. And who in God's name...
...question asked was: "Assuming he is otherwise qualified do you think a Communist should be permitted to teach at colleges 1) in the sciences, 2) in the social sciences, and 3) in the humanities...