Word: broodingness
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In the theater, the luck of the English has been the Irish. From Sheridan and Farquhar through Synge, Shaw and O'Casey, Irish-born dramatists have adorned English speech with tears, wit and poetic music. All the great Irish writers possess the gift for lightening or deepening the color...
"Of course, it will be difficult to make Christ real," he admits. "There's this story-it may only be apocryphal-but they say that when George Stevens was directing John Wayne as the Roman centurion in King of Kings, Wayne had this line, 'He truly is the Son of...
Whether or not the dream is over for good, the man who best sums up the new sound of rock?as well as being its most radiantly successful practitioner?is a brooding, sensitive 22-year-old rich man's son who sings, he says, "because I don't know how...
Hesburgh was clearly a victim of both academic and youthful intolerance. But he showed greater understanding than his detractors. After brooding about the draft, for example, he concluded that "the only kind of patriotism the Government was talking about was going overseas and killing people. The thing keeps gnawing at...
With upper floors stepped five feet out beyond lower ones, the structures have a brooding quality. Fountains and an impressive collection of outdoor sculpture lend a touch of urban design. The place seems to foreshadow a new kind of city-suburb.