Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking the covers from their cameras, the Americans hurriedly moved toward the exits from the reception hall...
...this theme. But it is more cheerful than many of his works, since the emphasis is not so much on the system and the monstrous creatures which it makes of men, as on the abounding exuberance and health of the impulses it cannot entirely suppress. As Puntila gropes drunkenly toward the friendship of his hired man, and as the hired man gropes cockily toward the privy parts of Puntila's red-headed daughter, the outlook seems positively sunny--until Brecht's characteristic bitterness clamps down again and the hired man takes to the road, convinced that Puntila's intermittent decency...
...Harvard is not the Harvard of his dreams. The authors of these articles even have a tendency to repeat themselves: "a tweed jacket, a bottle of Scotch, and a copy of Eliot's poetry" (p. 43); "Scotch, tweed, Eliot (House?) were the parameters" (p. 53); "hurried up Mass. Ave. toward the graveyard at the corner of Garden" (p. 47); "up to the small graveyard at the corner of Garden Street" (p. 146). The only two really rewarding parts of the "Atmosphere" section are Richard H. Seder's long, but very readable and, I found, rather moving poem on the frustrations...
...were going for a four-minute effort, passing the 440 mark in 60.0 and hitting the 880 in 2:04. His time at the half, in fact, was a full eight seconds better than Dyke Benjamin's fatally slow pace in the varsity race. Mullin tired toward the end, but he held on for the record...
Inevitably, discussion drifted toward Feiffer's plans for his next book. He admitted that he hadn't given much thought to another book, but speculated that one might be published next year, "maybe it will be something about the Presidential elections." "My next project" he said, "will be a screen play. Someone came along one day and said, 'How'd you like to write a movie script?' I said, 'Gee, yeah.' So, this summer I'm going to try. It's something I've always wanted...