Word: afterthoughts
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...rain-drenched ruins discover an abandoned baby, and, by the unselfish act of volunteering to adopt the child, the woodcutter restores the priest's faith in humanity. Though the film could hardly have found a better example of a compassionate saving grace, the scene seems an arbitrary afterthought that does not fit the story...
...aspirations on the reporters around here," he malapropped during one explanation, "but those newspapers in Ohio are really Republican." Explaining his own defeat, Ferguson said: "The reason I got beat so bad was that the Democrats and the working people didn't go out to vote." As an afterthought, he added with unprecedented political candor: "Of course, if they'd voted I might have got beaten worse. But you always have the consolation of thinking you would have...
...major. Arthur Koestler, Marguerite Higgins, Walter Reuther, Walter Winchell and the Christian Science Monitor's Erwin Canham were on hand to report on the rebirth in conquered Moscow of such things as religion, unions, a free press, the beginnings of democratic government. As a pious afterthought Collier's said editorially: "We do not think that war is inevitable." The special issue was "an appeal to the reason of Joseph Stalin and the men around...
...Afterthought. In Connecticut, which already has a law requiring windshield wipers on every car, legislators considered a bill making windshields mandatory...
...poems. Frank O'Hara's "A Prayer to Prospero" reads smoothly and is relatively easy to understand, but after half a dozen re-readings it still passes smoothly down my gullet like a puree, without making any positive impression. "The Fiction of an Afterthought" by George A. Kelly is a different matter: it is far too elaborate and obscure for my taste, but many of its lines at least make impressions--and mostly favorable ones, though Kelly has a regrettable fondness for words like "defiling," and "infinitely," and a line like "The awkward dignity of death, seems prefabricated...