Word: waited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improving society, says Olga Mike, who dreams of becoming an opera singer, but will work first as a teacher. She adds: "I'm not against marchers, but my way is to get through school as fast as I can and learn as much as I can. I say, wait and bide your time. Then, when your time comes, do whatever...
...mood of Beckett's plays and novels is traumatic loss, a vestigial memory of the expulsion from Eden. With elegiac melancholy, Beckett intones a kyrie eleison without God. Waiting for Godot is hope's requiem. The two tramps Estragon and Vladimir wait in vain...
...tramps wait. To pass the time they play games. Games become a substitute for life and the loss of purpose. They are the contretemps of clowns. The clown is the only entertainer who consistently draws laughter through his own self-abasement. Beckett's ultimate position is that man is the clown of the universe. But he is a clown for whom Beckett weeps, and that is his saving compassion...
There was a long wait, evidently while the Chief Deputy Sheriff, Robert Tobin, tried to persuade the Redgates to leave. The Redgates, however, were not going to give up that easily. Finally, someone came out with Mrs. Redgate, leading her by the hand...
...COUNTRY CLUB by Nancy Bruff. 339 pages. Bartholomew House. $6.95. Worldly doings and undoings on and around a posh golf course. Pure tripe, but wait until you see the movie...