Word: whimper
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...precision bearing to the pure expression of what it is meant to supply-freedom of movement. He divorces the machine from function and allows it to do what is natural for it. Says he: "In a mechanized environment a machine that is carefully designed to be useless echoes the whimper or many a cog: 'What's the use?" Perhaps Rickey's nonfunctional machines show that out of tiny cogs a mighty concept of harmonious motion may grow, giving art another dimension at which it traditionally could only hint...
...then, amid the groan of earth-moving machines, police called for silence. Then during the eerie, deathly lull, everyone listened for the faint whimper of a trapped child...
...danger, then, is that the state governments will continue to do their present jobs a little better and to ignore the jobs they might do. Their decline may come not with a whimper but a yawn...
...pity that such a great show had to end with such a whimper as the finale of popular dances that for some reason was tacked at the end. Aside from that, however, this is a really fine show. It is a pleasant surprise to find so much dancing talent among Harvard undergraduates, so many good-looking Cliffies in Jazz Dance "costumes," so much ability, spirit, and emotion in a Harvard show...
...that jargon about repression and frustration and absurdity Tom and Teena really do have feelings and are just scared shitless. As one character so subtly puts it. So we learn in the end that Tom can bawl like the kid he is at heart and Teena can pout and whimper like the bourgeois wife she wants to be. And when that baby comes along, oh Mama, they're so happy and thrilled and in love that you could just cry and cry. You see, life had to teach them something -- that they can't run away from themselves...