Word: wither
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another, whether they wither away, become dormitories in suburbia or merge with neighboring communities, the small towns of old are vanishing, and with them will vanish one dimension of the nation's life. The small town had its defects as a place to live in, and urban Americans who know it only from the pages of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and other look-back-in-disgust fiction-eers are likely to think of the small town only as narrow, ingrown, stunting. But for many, life there had its compensations -countryside within walking distance, acquaintances rather than hurrying strangers...
...Jimmy Durante has shriveled away till he looks like a mere appendage of that incomparable proboscis, long may it wave. But age cannot wither nor custom stale his infinite sameness. In 1962 he is essentially what he was in 1950, when he made his last movie. He is Jimmy, a quite ordinary little fellow who looks slightly confused and absurdly belligerent, as though in total darkness he had stepped on the teeth of a rake, and the handle had popped up and hit him in the nose, and there he stands, punching wildly and wondering...
Stung by a succession of U.S. sales coups, the British are worried that their weapons eventually will be squeezed out of Europe, and that their technology, lacking outlets, will wither. The British had their first taste of things to come in 1956, when a batch of aging American F-84s was given to the reviving Luftwaffe, as one British reporter put it, "like free samples of detergent." One year later, despite a brand-new tank factory in Lancashire, Britain lost out to the U.S. M48 tank in bidding to equip West Germany's armored corps...
...Church, to lose themselves in a sheltering, pluralistic society." Callahan thinks that the frustration of lay hopes could lead to anticlericalism, but sees a more immediate danger in the dissipation of the contemporary layman's eagerness to serve. "The whole lay apostolate," Callahan warns, "could simply wither away to a feeble, insignificant movement, of little consequence to the ongoing life of the Church...
Paradoxically, off-Broadway theatre has never been able to survive more than a few blocks off Broadway; a few noble experiments have been made, but when the soil is not that of midtown Manhattan, the transplanted shoots just wither and die. Yet, as the current production of the Cohasset Music Circus suggests, this may be a good thing. Perhaps the restraining influence of the legitimate, conventional theatre is necessary to the health of a reasonable experimental theatre. In any case, "The Two-Headed Baby" - an "off-Broadway" experiment by Ellis Andrews - does nothing more than take a broad jump over...