Word: wising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reading Odysseus' lines, Robards drew upon a lower register, often dipping into gravely tones, giving a particularly strong impression of wise, weathered worldliness. Walker, facing several roles (including Penelope), inhabited each one by seeming to occupy a space beyond the table and chair that served for the reading...
...until Mrs. Trotsky (Elena Schneider '99) points it out. Although "Variations on the Death of Trotsky" isn't as witty or keenly observant as "Sure Thing," it's hard to resist lines like "maybe he was just hot-to-Trotsky." Driscoll was appropriately ridiculous and Schneider hilarious as the wise-cracking wife...
...than $50. I have an irrational expectation that somehow by making numerous visits to the Coop, the grand total of the cost of my books will be less than the cost if I'd just bought them all at one fell swoop. Needless to say my technique is neither wise nor efficient and my only release is to complain bitterly. How dare they charge me $190 for a sourcebook--a pile of Xeroxes stapled together? I won't join them--I won't give them the satisfaction of having my name listed as a Coop member...
...enigmatic composer who died while composing both this score, and on a more macabre note, his own Requiem. For this reason, the opera has been subject to numerous musical adjustments, scene juxtapositions, and idiosyncratic interpretations since it was first performed in 1880. The Dunster House Opera made some wise choices, sticking with the most traditional of these versions, using English spoken dialogue in place of French recitative, and abbreviating the length of the opera...
...Vietnam." Albright's orientation is used to explain her willingness to confront bullies with force. But the Munich Conference in 1938 that gave Hitler the green light to annex one-third of Czechoslovakia carried many lessons beyond the dangers of appeasement, and one was surely that it is never wise to play from a position of weakness. Albright knew early on that you can't do a thing in foreign policy without power. So she didn't waste any time "establishing her presence," as an observer puts...