Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually. Jean-Marie's wild and woolly cousins are proud to welcome an educated man; the fact that he flunked his exams is a technicality they fail to grasp. He soon finds himself writing letters for the adults and giving lessons to the children. Everyone takes for granted that his city ways of love-making must be the epitome of charm. As Jean-Marie is actually a virgin, much of Author Beti's humor is spent on his hero's efforts to keep out of one bed by falling between...
...contraption that keeps a farcical, topical, more or less sexy idea whirling, brings on a character every 46 seconds, drops out a gag every 19, makes a hideaway of the men's room and a rumpus room of the office. Aspiring to pandemonium, the authors never fail of noise; left creatively penniless at the second-act curtain, they spend the third act kiting checks...
...will do Kennedy no good at all merely to win this election; he must win big. Should he fail to lead his ticket--as happened in the primary--his reputation as a vote-getter will suffer immeasurably and with it his hopes for the Presidential nomination...
This is conceivably the only novel ever written in which a boy tries to seduce a girl in a recumbent church bell. The would-be lovers fail, but that is because the clapper gives off a frightful clang that scares them both frigid. All of this will come as no surprise to fans of British Novelist Iris Murdoch (The Sandcastle), a philosophy-teaching Oxford don and an intellectual pixy whose wit ends in tears, whose sentences are transparent while her meanings are opaque...
With the flight of time, some tissues become drier and infiltrated with fat. Blood vessels harden (arteriosclerosis). Muscles weaken. Bones grow brittle. Eyes and ears gradually fail, from a number of complex, minute structural changes. Ironically, the teeth-such as are left of them -become more resistant to decay in later life. On empirical evidence, Shakespeare anticipated microanatomy when he said that the oldster is "sans taste," for the average number of taste buds is 208 during the prime of life, but only 88 after...