Word: uptrodden
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Ralph: These are certainly deep waters, Wanda. As your local representative of the uptrodden gender, I frankly had no idea that cheerfulness was a sexist plot. If I correctly recall our last 42 arguments, you have been telling me that men not only have trouble expressing their feelings, they may even be emotionally tone deaf. Wouldn't it be logical for you to argue that women , smile more because they are less blocked emotionally, not because niceness is a symbol of servitude...
...four-page intervals. This is shallow thinking. Actually the canny reader skips through Miller not so much to concentrate on naughtiness as to avoid what comes between. What does is ill-written blather on one of two subjects: 1) the downtrodden state of artists in the U.S. (and their uptrodden bliss in Europe), and 2) how the world's troubles would be solved if everyone would be nice to everyone else...
...tremulous letter to the New York Times, Playwright Tennessee Williams at last explained the flap surrounding the debut of uptrodden Tallulah Bankhead as downtrodden Blanche Dubois in his A Streetcar Named Desire (TIME, Feb. 13). It was the morning after opening night in Miami, with three weeks to go before Streetcar careened into Manhattan's City Center. Recalled Williams: "She asked me meekly if she had played Blanche better than anyone else had played her. I hope you will forgive me for having answered, 'No, your performance was the worst I have seen.' . . . I never stated publicly...
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