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...undercutting the distinctions between normalcy and abnormality. The unsettling results seem to totter between a sinister vision and a deceptive festivity. Such ambivalent reactions suit Dubuffet fine. He long ago stated his own criterion: "Art should always make us laugh a little and frighten us a little, but never bore...
Besides Welz, Harvard had only three other baserunners. Jeff Grate walked in the first, Dan Hootstein singled and stole second in the fourth, and George Neville blooped a double in the sixth, but all vegetated on base as O'Brien bore down...
...trunk airlines, was notorious for late flights, sloppy service and shoddy equipment. Its routes included everything from long flights to Buenos Aires to costly Texas puddle jumps, but the airline had not won a new route for ten years and was barely making money. "Flying had become a crawling bore," says Lawrence today. "But flying should be fun-and colors are fun." When Jack Tinker & Partners, the ad agency that Lawrence hired while he was increasing his advertising budget from $2,500,000 to $6,500,000, suggested colored airplanes, Lawrence leaped at the idea...
...book survives as more than a memoir of a battalion; it stands as a funeral service for a generation, the somber record of all men who not only bore themselves well in the face of a great calamity, but found their lives enhanced by it. There is no rhetoric; Chapman puts out no flags, but guards the human honor of his battalion like a mourner concealing his grief from strangers at the graveside...
...dreams, or from the more painful disillusion with fulfilled dreams. James Tyrone is a financially successful matinee idol who has risen from immigrant Irish poverty. His wife Mary, raised in a lace-curtain Irish home, schooled in a convent, has turned to morphine after the illness in which she bore her second son, Edmund, (representing O'Neill himself). The eldest son, Jamie, has wasted away an acting and writing talent in a Broadway life of whiskey and cynicism. Edmund, vaguely seeking to be a poet after running to sea, has returned to the family's summer home stricken with consumption...