Word: utterness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gordon greeted him, and the cameras, with a smile. But the smile faded quickly as Kierans presented his letter, which began, "The financial capitals of the world have just about had enough from Canada." In effect, the letter called the tax discriminatory, prohibitive and unworkable-"complete and utter nonsense." It was, he continued, "an axe to murder the record of trust and confidence that has grown up over the years." As Kierans talked to Gordon, his Montreal office distributed 1,200 copies of the letter in English, and another 600 in French, to every company president with shares listed...
...than having one of his plays produced in Germany. You are asked to write notes for the playbill, like those for a symphony, and in them you can say, 'The second act slows because here I mix Theme A with Theme C, resulting in a pace that approaches utter boredom.' Then the audience studies the program and at intermission you can hear them saying, 'Ustinov is a genius. See! Here where he says it would be boring, it is boring...
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has his own ideas about the U.S. proposal for a NATO fleet of Polaris-firing surface ships manned by crews of several nationalities. "Utter and complete poppycock!" he cried in the House of Lords last week. "How," he snorted, "can a ship fight effectively if one-third of its crew is Portuguese, one-third Belgian and one-third, say, Danish? The thing is just not on. You might as well man a ship with a party of politicians...
...hard to tell whether the utter tedium of George Nugent's String Quartet, Gerald Bennett's Three Songs, and James Webster's String Quartet should be blamed on the performers or the composers. In all three works, it is clear that the composers have approached the common idiom of twentieth century music--and beneath a few musical pinnacles, there really is one--much as a snake eats a rat: by swallowing it whole and unchewed. Giving the details of the ingestion would be too painful here. Three Psalm Fragments, by Thomas Benjamin, received a spirited performance by a selected chorus...
...voluntarily robbed a human life of the compulsion whereby it lives, had condemned myself to an existence based entirely on compulsion-the compulsion of moving ineluctably toward my own death." Because Tamura shows no mercy to himself, he can show none to others. But at the point of utter degradation, Tamura at last finds his will. While other surviving Japanese turn to cannibalism, Tamura balks and takes a bitter pride in refusing the flesh of another human. At long last, he is able to utter the words that come so easily to people in a free world...