Word: undoings
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...warned that hasty highway and urban changes might prove unwise and that "once we make the wrong decision we can never undo...
...dowry to buy a steamer ticket. He is tempted by the family's kindness until his prospective father-in-law (Paul Mann) describes the future: "You'll be old and I'll be old, and we'll sit here and drink and eat and undo the tops of our trousers and take a nap and the women will muzz-muzz in the kitchen." Having no taste for muzz-muzz, Stavros solves his problem another way: he becomes the boy lover of an American rug dealer's alcoholic wife. "In America," he says, "I will...
...monstrous discontinuity offends. The abrupt end of the life of a young man who made a young and mighty country feel its age again; who made it feel a youthful strength adequate to undo the heavy burden and let the oppressed go free; the end of such a man now stuns a country grateful for his leadership, his energy, his vision. It stuns a Nation for which he once offered up his life in service, and in whose service he has now given...
...loss of its land. The bill, which would set up a fund to "improve the economic, social and educational conditions" of the Seneca, is pathetic in its inadequacy and almost touching in its clumsy pomposity. The Seneca have been dealt a sickening injustice, which no amount of "improving" will undo. Still, one can hope that the Administration's decision to give the Seneca something resembling a fair shake in this single instance foreshadows a new, general policy of justice to the American Indian...
What I have in mind is Lear's very last five lines--the most daring and unorthodox valedictory speech ever penned, though made up of nothing but short, everyday words: "Thou" It come no more,/ Never, never, never, never, never!/ Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir./ Do you see this? Look on her! look! her lips!/ Look there, look there...