Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kaufmann has noted that the tragic hero, as Shakespeare conceived him, fits Aristotle's description of the "great-souled man" ("He claims much and deserves much"). One reason why the Willy Lomans, the Blanche DuBoises and the poor, driven people of O'Neill are pseudo-tragic and fail to exalt an audience is because they are small-souled. They claim little and deserve
...Trinitarian Congregational Church near Boston: ' Suburbia is gossipy. So many of the people are on approximately the same level economically and socially. They're scrambling for success. They tend to be new in the community and they're unstable and insecure. When they see someone else fail, in work or in a family relationship, they themselves feel a rung higher, and this is a great reason for gossip. I think socially we're flying apart-we don't meet heart to heart any more, we meet at cocktail parties in a superficial way. We value...
...sure to gain reward." Gehot is represented in the series by his Quartetto in D Major, a pleasant if rather bland work with a folksy, hey-nonny-nonnish air. Among Gehot's other works: a comic opera titled The Maid's Last Shift, or Any Rather Than Fail...
What the Forand bill means to me: it means that from now to the year 2006, when I will be 65,1 will be burdened with one more heavy tax. To pay this tax, I will be forced to work harder so that my health will fail, and I will finally be able (if I live that long) to take advantage of its benefits...
...Summitry-the notion that top men, convinced of each other's good intentions, might succeed where the ordinary processes of diplomacy fail-was now discredited, perhaps for good...