Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, as adapted by Edward Albee from Carson McCullers' novella, reproduces the story's mood of Southern grotesquerie. Unfortunately, the play itself is wispy and intangible despite the strenuous acting efforts of Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn...
Lots of Chuckles. As for Goldwater, he had a somewhat less strenuous week, making his only major appearance in Hartford, Conn. There, he agreed that he would be happy to accept the G.O.P. nomination if it comes his way: "Any man would be a damned liar if he said he wouldn't." With that, the 200-member state Republican committee in Oklahoma shouted through a resolution pledging all 22 of the state's national convention delegates to the Senator...
...turned out, Howlett's workout was probably more strenuous than his teammates'. Meehan's fine performance was accomplished with the greatest of case--he finished 24 seconds ahead of Dartmouth's Lee Daneker...
...climax of a comic novel, the scene seems a touch strenuous. Here are 13 young women, some of them naked and lubricated with soap, desperately trying to squirm to salvation through a tiny bathroom window in a burning London house. Happily, no one excels Scots-born Novelist Muriel Spark at the satiric art of making the outrageous seem natural-and the natural outrageous. In The Girls of Slender Means she not only gets away with trial by hip-size in the bathroom but thriftily makes it a moment of religious crisis. After witnessing the scene, a male character joins...
Most of the million visitors who crowd into Ocean City, Md., each summer go there to rest, and for them miniature golf counts as a strenuous sport. But Ocean City also lures a hardier type: the sport fisherman. Hotel phone operators spot him easily: he is the fel low who asks to be called at 5 a.m., and again at 5:30, "just to make sure." By 6:30, he has gobbled down break fast, swallowed a Dramamine pill, and scoured the sleeping town for a six-pack of cold beer. Half an hour later, he is aboard a motorboat...