Word: exclaimed
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...substantial than a set of gimmicks tucked into a quilt of comfortably literary allusions. Mostly, though, a director doing modern-dress, colloquial Shakespeare is seduced by the cheap and easy thrills he can tickle out of his audience simply by staging a series of recognition scenes. "Ah," the people exclaim with delight, "the riveter's wife is Lady Macbeth!" And if the director is lucky, no one in the theatre will pause to ask, "So what...
Pondering such differences in his more frustrated moments. President Kennedy has been heard to exclaim: "God save us from our friends." Unquestionably, the leaders of the other Allied nations have at times felt the same way about the U.S. and about each other-for controversy is basic in the nature of any alliance composed of free nations and dedicated to free discussion. Each of the Western Allies has its own ideas, its own problems, its own ambitions. In the conflicts that have arisen before the Berlin crisis, the Allies have always managed, despite occasional harsh words, to iron out their...
...Guided Elite. Buchman meant M.R.A. to be a "God-guided campaign to prevent war by moral and spiritual awakening." It failed to prevent war, and it earned considerable censure for seeming to rely heavily on "changing" dictators; Buchman had the misfortune to exclaim publicly: "I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler." After World War II, M.R.A. turned to attacking Communism...
...gave the Boston papers a well-deserved pasting in a Harpers article last fall, and, periodically, gazing at the text of a news conference in the New York Times or at a particularly excruciating four-color picture of Cardinal Cushing on the front page of the Globe, someone will exclaim how bad the Boston press really...
...near Forbes Air Force Base, John McKone's wife Connie read and reread every word she received. "The handwriting is John's," she told herself after poring over some passages, "but it is not John. His use of words is too stilted." At other times she would exclaim happily: "That's John...