Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beckett, Behrman says, "I did wait for Godot, but I found he had nothing to offer me." Beckett, he adds, avoids a problem by never having Godot enter the scene, and "I imagine that if he did come in he would utter a platitude. I hate wisdom by implication; it smacks of intellectual chicanery." He recalls a course in Croce that he took at Harvard: "He said that you have no ideas until you have expressed them; there is no such thing as having good ideas and not being able to put them into words...
...kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil for the sake of her two children, and with the reasoning of utter despair kills the younger child to save a home for the elder...
...meandering four years after love walked in, husky-throated Singing Cinemactress Julie London, ex-wife of Dragnet's Joe Friday, and Composer-Pianist Bobby Troup decided to make a wedding of it (in mid-December), left their joint business manager to utter the thought-provoking explanation: "They suddenly discovered there's no reason not to be married...
...want my girls to know everything," says Mrs. O'Mahony. "My aim is utter perfection." At least in principle, Cygnets learn to discuss abstract art, ask a bishop how he takes his tea, change a diaper, sew up a ball gown, open a bazaar, cook a banquet and, should such perfection overpower onlookers, give first aid. It is assumed that Cygnets will marry, and one lecture tells the girls "How to care for a tired husband fretful after a nasty day at the office...
After three worsening years of acrimony and litigation, the five moderate members of the Little Rock school board-segregationists who believe in complying with Federal law-last week resigned in a mood of "utter hopelessness, helplessness and frustration." Left as the board's sole remaining member: Supreme Court-flouting Segregationist Dr. Dale Alford, who won a larger triumph a fortnight ago, when he captured the House of Representatives' seat of Moderate Congressman Brooks Hays on a write-in vote...