Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...this duel of attitudes, the play's blood thins as its plot thickens, and what the evening yields as a whole is not so much a sharp intellectual meaning as a plaintively cynical mood. The old generalities repeat themselves: Must sensuality grow so coarse, or purity so prudish, or life itself so punishing? But if limited in vital substance, Duel of Angels has considerable style. Christopher Fry has conveyed Giraudoux's gloved, sheathed, scented prose with great adroitness, and Roger Furse's sets and Dior's gowns enhance the provincially elegant atmosphere. If much...
...prison psychiatry successful? Precise figures comparing crime-repeat rates after Medical Facility treatment and after ordinary imprisonment contain no pat answer, because of the way inmates are assigned and legal technicalities (e.g., a paroled felon is thrown back in the pen for committing a misdemeanor, though he may be close to "going straight"). A research program is under way to grade the expectations for a prisoner's future when he is committed, and test this prediction against his later performance...
...traditional, pale blue longyi and looking uncommonly mellow for the rough old campaigner he is, U Nu stepped last week before a Parliament in which his Union Party had won a thumping two-thirds majority in last February's elections, and proclaimed: "We are determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past...
...control in response to grandiose Soviet disarmament proposals, but upon that hardheaded insistence may rest the future of freedom. In negotiating disarmament with the U.S.S.R., the West might , do well to keep in mind the warning of Philosopher George Santayana: those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Items...
...snatch of the Charleston, for some cha cha cha, or for the step known as "the Jackie Gleason" (a broad parody of Gleason's away-we-go shuffle). When a pattern is finished, he may call: "Erase it," i.e., repeat the pattern in reverse. The variations often have a sports flavor, as in "the Wilt Chamberlain Hook," in which the dancer suddenly goes stiff-legged and completes his shuffle with a Chamberlain-style hook shot. Baltimore devotees like "the Unitas," in which the dancer shuffles around with arm cocked as if to forward pass. Another local variation known...