Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humiliation was the word. But it was Gibson who did the humiliating, with a virtuoso performance unmatched in the 65-year history of the Series. For McLain, the contest was over quickly; uncharacteristically erratic, he walked three batters, gave up three hits and three runs, and retired to the showers after five innings. "I wish I were Jewish," he said glumly, reflecting on the fact that the game was being played on Yom Kippur. "Then I wouldn't have had to pitch today." Religion might have helped Denny. Nothing could have helped Detroit...
...more than three centuries, one man had despotic power to decide what plays would or would not appear on the public stage in Britain. As the royal censor, the Lord Chamberlain could summarily order an offending word, line or scene stricken from a script, or he could ban a play altogether by refusing to license it for performance. Although blue-penciling has eased in recent years, English playwrights have persistently demanded total dramatic freedom, and last July Parliament abolished the Chamberlain's licensing authority. Two weeks ago, the U.S. folk-rock musical Hair became the first play publicly staged...
...fact, Mailer engages in a bit of butchery of his own. His account seethes with contempt for conventional liberalism and the man who embodies it: the Democratic nominee. "Humphrey simply could not attach the language of his rhetoric to any reality; he was perfectly capable of using the same word, 'Freedom,' let us say, to describe a ward fix in Minneapolis and a gathering of Quakers. He was a politician; he could kiss babies, rouge, rubber, velvet, blubber and glass. God had not given him oral excellence for nothing...
...musical doubting and questioning does not mean that Ruggles lacks a ready supply of answers when he sits chatting with visitors in the living room or over the cracker barrel at the country store. Salty and profane as a whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this...
...monster from the past, and so dispose of the problem? Clearly not. Cleverly, wisely, Davidson offers no final solution. Instead he slowly turns the book into a rueful seminar on the possibilities that men have of ever "making good again" after various sorts of failure. In the process, the word Wiedergutmachung becomes a kind of pun that can be read on a number of levels, some hopeful, some somber: restoring to virtue a society that has lost its virtue; paying old debts; returning to success after losses in life or love...