Word: unctuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard--for the matador then--the task is not only to win with great finality on the field but to put some kind of concreteness into the situation of the Yale team. Destruction is the only way--killing is the only thing we can be sure of in this unctuous world...
...earthly journey comes to a happy end in eternal life. American Protestant funeral rites traditionally reflected this belief in such comfortable old favorites as the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd") and the promises of Jesus ("I am the Resurrection and the Life"), at least until the more unctuous funeral-parlor euphemisms began to avoid any confrontation at all with the idea of death. Roman Catholic rites, on the other hand, were infected by a grim medieval preoccupation with sin and punishment; any confidence or joy in the resurrection hardly seemed to exist...
...PROBLEM with this production of The Fantasticks is the lead. Lang des Jardins, who plays both the narrator and El Gallo, the cowboy-rapist who tries to steal away Louisa's heart, is bad. He has a wonderful John Raitt "MOOOAHHHH" voice, but he moves in an obscene, unctuous way across the stage...
...Harvard--for the matador then--the task is not only to win with great finality on the field but to put some kind of concreteness into the situation of the Yale team. Destruction is the only way--killing is the only thing we can be sure of in this unctuous world...
...every night. It's a regular thing." As post time approaches for the first race, lines quickly form and disperse at the betting windows. The dogs, donned in colored, numbered blankets, leave the kennels and parade past the grandstand, and around the track to the starting blocks. Meanwhile, the unctuous voice of the announcer calls "Hurry, Hurry, Hurrrry--place your bets." The odds on the big boards in the infield flash rapidly with the changing whims of the crowd. Tension mounts as the hounds poise, leap, speed. The rumbling mob roars and fragments as the end approaches. The winning number...