Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day." I wonder if Camus read Kafka, who expressed a strikingly similar existential thought when he wrote: "Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session...
...sputter of midnight traffic had given way to the long wait for dawn when the 1,400 inmates of Rawalpindi District Jail began to pray. Imperceptibly at first, their murmur grew as they recited from the Koran; the time for execution was approaching. Shortly before 2 a.m., the prisoner, gaunt and ailing, was led from his dungeon death cell to the scaffolding. His hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away...
...their top powers-chairmen, presidents or vice presidents -get together for a day in Diebold's offices. In these meetings they exchange information on how their own companies are trying to anticipate and respond to the many minirevolutions in the country. Diebold preaches a message: "Don't wait for the activists to come forward. Go out and meet them at least halfway, and maybe more than that...
Robert Markowitz's direction, which puts great stock in mushy dissolves, is slightly below the level of a TV perfume commercial. Whenever the action trails off, he brings on a Jimmy Webb theme song that sounds like a cross between You Light Up My Life and I Will Wait for You from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Stars Irving and Ontkean can be vibrant actors, but Markowitz straitjackets them into cutie-pie poses. If Irving comes off the better of the two, it is because of her character's affliction. Somehow silly dialogue does not seem quite so embarrassing...
...What is the price-curran, of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate and they regret, and sometimes they petition, but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most they will give only a cheap vote...to the right, as it goes by them...