Word: customized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they did in the original Greek production, and for a while this adds a dimension of hieratic awe to the play, but soon the lack of human expressions reduces the effect to a kind of puppet show. The women's roles are played by men, also a custom with the ancients. At the outset, this is forceful and a trifle unsettling. Yet eventually the lack of sexual differentiation erases the central fact that this is a bitter domestic tragedy...
...seek out "pits," usually in lovers' lanes or in a tunnel beneath the city. Los Angeles policemen are occasionally caught dozing on a jail pallet or in a patrol car. Just last week two Chicago patrolmen were suspended briefly for sleeping while on duty. In Washington, where the custom is known as "huddling," many a drowsy cop is awakened only when headquarters activates the shrill buzzer on his walkie-talkie...
...black men in the book are of similar caliber. For example, the reader meets only one free black man, and instead of living in the city as custom, common sense, comfort, and economic necessity would dictate, this man and his family are starving to death in the impoverished countryside. The man's only apparent function in the story is to show the inability of blacks to live without the guidance of white people and to verbally excoriate Nat's excessively cruel master. By contrast, the slaves are somewhat better fed and generate an aura of contentment. I noticed that some...
Brown cut velvet skirt with straps Custom fashions Imported shoes...
Exams. The Spalding Slaughter has now given way to the Crumgold Finesse, originated by the late Miles Crumgold, Harry and Bill Green Professor of World History. It was Dr. Crumgold's custom to warn his students well in advance of the hour exam that they were in for a "toughie." As the day approached, he would start hinting at some of the incredibly intricate questions students should prepare for, and with one lecture to go he would--in a burst of charity--pass out a list of relevant items. The actual exam then consisted of a single question, typically...