Word: anyway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many things in this script tax to the umost the oft-stated "willing suspension of disbelief" that every playgoer is supposed to bring with him into a theatre. Shakespeare was never primarily concerned with story line, anyway; he was more interested in character than in plot. For All's Well he just snapped up a Boccaccio tale from a secondary source, complete with the trite gimmick of identification of rings. But he failed to expend the necessary effort on characteriaztion as well. Pascal once said, "Every author has a meaning in which all the contradictory passages agree...
Belle tells all-or. anyway, enough to leave the rest readily imagined-in this ribaldly readable autobiography of an uncommon bawd, which is at the same time a perceptive reminiscence of the gaslight culture in its last wild glare...
...archbishop was adamant. Sue's mother said she was against Sue's going to Long Beach. Sue said she would go anyway. "If I go against mother's wishes, it doesn't seem a bit fair that she should be denied the sacraments, too," she said. "I have all the respect in the world for the archbishop and am sure he feels he's doing the right thing. But after all, it's 1959, and it's not going to be indecent or shady, and he should realize that...
...longtime (1932-57) chairman of the U.S. Communist Party. William Z. Foster, now 78 and so ill that he has never been tried on his 1948 indictments for conspiracy, asked a Manhattan court to lift the raps on him or let him go to the Soviet Union anyway. His reason: medical treatment costs too much...
...pinnacle of popular dancing, a position he has enjoyed for half his life. Astaire fans will be elated to hear that the end of his career is nowhere in sight. Writes the mellowing top-hatter: "What is this age bit that goes on about actors and athletes, anyway? . . . For some years I've been looking for the quitting signal . . . the time when the years would simply show too much, even if they photographed me through three lace curtains . . . It's nice to hear, 'How does the old boy do it ... why isn't he falling apart...