Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While sexual scheming takes up a disproportionate share of The Law, Author Vailland manages to use it chiefly to accent the greed, misery and lust for power that fill his febrile small-town world. The moral of The Law is that the strong and ruthless will crush the weak and righteous almost every time-and Author Vailland has the knack of making their victory seem inevitable...
Pass defense, however, may well be another story. The varsity was weak in this department last year, and several times in the Buffalo game it loked as though the same might hold true this year. Unfortunately Cornell has the materials with which to exploit this weakness...
...cause of new drama just before the founding members' graduation in 1953. As its swan song, the Group decided to give the premiere of The General, written by Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English. Directed by the author, the performance was excellent. But the play was weak, and the production lost $3000 (though a New York manager picked up the tab). Nevertheless, all agreed that the HTG could take pride in its exit as well as its previous record...
Asked if he agreed with Toynbee's assertion that "Western culture is a waning culture," Dawson replied that "Toynbee exaggerates too much. The West is not quite so weak as he says. Anti-western movements in Africa and Asia," he said, "are already signs of the spread of Western culture in those areas...
Still Buried. After the experiment in systematic derangement ends in scandal and squalor, Claude makes his way back to Cambon. He is weak and ill. In the writing of A Season in Hell, he chokes down his poetry and his past. His exit line: "No more words. I bury the dead in my belly...