Word: utterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRITAIN'S general election comes up May 26, and the Conservative and Labor (Socialist) Parties published their platform this week. Sir Anthony Eden's Conservatives utter a set of pious bromides about their love of peace and determination to avoid war. To that end, they propose to seek early talks with the Kremlin mob on easing world tensions. Nothing is said about the Kremlin mob showing evidence of good faith before such talks are held. The Conservatives hint broadly that they'll heed the Socialists' demand to cut the conscription period from the present two years...
...door prepared obviously to defy the ultimatum. Having been asked once again if he would refrain from disturbing the lecture, he pointed a drill at Professor Schlesinger and began to turn it in a manner which I assumed to point out more clearly his complete superiority and utter disdain. I do feel very sorry for that boy; he could not have realized what a foolish thing he was doing. At any rate, he soon left and the lecture continued...
Judging from the present development of the building, there does not seem to be any provision for natural lighting. Perhaps utter darkness, inducing meditation, will grip the interior, symbolizing the ignorance in which man's soul is thrashing about. And, after a few moments of this thrashing about, the darkness will motivate our logical, expedient MIT student (and all MIT students ARE logical and expedient) with a desire to come out into the natural light...
...scene of the play is the Mississippi Delta plantation of a lusty, crude, aging millionaire who does not know he is dying of cancer. He has two sons, one an utter mediocrity, scheming with his petty wife for the estate. Brick, the other son (Ben Gazzara) and father's favorite, has taken to drink and refuses himself to the wife he hates-the wife who intimated there was something unnatural between him and his now-dead closest friend. In an atmosphere of conjugal and family pretenses, accusations and resentments. Brick and his father, during a lacerating scene, blurt...
...said. Then, with the gentleness of a new razor blade, he named and praised outstanding California Republicans. He had something good to say about U.S. Senators William F. Knowland and Thomas H. Kuchel; he mentioned former Governor (now U.S. Chief Justice) Earl Warren. But never once did he utter the name of Goodwin J. Knight. There was only a passing reference to "our present governor...