Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The hero is a sharecropper's son named Max Harper, a simple, violent, yet good-hearted fellow with a clubfoot. He falls in love with the landlord's daughter and develops an understandable hatred for her mean, spoiled brother. The paternalistic but unscrupulous landlord persuades young Harper to...
¶ Yoko garbi, in which two-or three-man teams carry short, sickle-shaped wicker baskets. These chisteras, used for both catching and throwing, add a wicked impetus to the pelota.
By the time he quit regular criticism for playwrighting, in 1894, Shaw had learned to "distinguish between what every [artist] can do and what only a very few can do." He learned that "a criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading . . . When my critical mood is at its...
After dropping down to the Air Force University at Montgomery, Ala. to make a commencement speech, highhanded TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey made some less salutary remarks on a telecast. His target: Montgomery, the state's capital; it gets so hot there, said Godfrey, that folks would just curl up...
Wicked Swish. The first number was from a century-old skit called The Three Encounters, in which a suspicious innkeeper crept into a knight's room at night, determined to kill him. What followed turned into a riotous pantomime. The two men groped toward each other as if they...