Word: groan
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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With about 15 seconds remaining in The Game, exultant Yalies began tugging at the goal post at the open end of Harvard stadium. Twisted and gnarled, the post never snapped cleanly; it just sagged and let out a little groan...
...Levene had graced the British stage for 53 years, he would long since have been knighted. He is a pluperfect master of the groan, the pause, the gravelly riposte, and nobody, but nobody, has his comic timing...
...lack of conviction and values, unable, in the face of the failure of language and thought, even to speak, much less create a play; powerless, without a belief in absolutes, to believe in the absolute of his art; left, when the only true meaning is in silence, only to groan. Leib has, in a way, belied his vision by actually writing an eminently successful modern play (this should be called Terry by Terry by Terry), but it is no less disturbing as a result...
...personified in Dr. Benway in Naked Lunch. But he is no Miniver Cheevy. "In many ways of course everyone knows that life was more pleasant a hundred years ago. On the other hand, of course, most of us would be dead," he said in his WASP/aristocrat groan. "I sometimes take a census of the number of my friends who would be dead if they had lived a hundred years ago and it's almost a hundred per cent...