This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.

The public, Tom said the man told him, wanted realism, and his play wasn't that.

`` We no longer have Tom Moore's and Longfellow's ' heart for any fate ', either '', I said.

And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

`` This was the coolest, calmest election I ever saw '', Colquitt Policeman Tom Williams said.

`` Oh '', said Mr. Partlow, `` that's fine, Tom.

Heidi Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times said of the play " Far more surreal and twisted than Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 12 Ophelias is a reminder of just how morphable and mysterious Shakespeare's original remains.

" Post-left anarchist Bob Black in his long critique of Bookchin's philosophy called Anarchy after leftism said about post-left anarchy that " It is, unlike Bookchinism, “ individualistic ” in the sense that if the freedom and happiness of the individual — i. e., each and every really existing person, every Tom, Dick and Murray — is not the measure of the good society, what is?

Activist Tom Hayden said, " My own radical journey began with Mad Magazine.

The league also said that Mickey Loomis, the Saints ' general manager, was directed to end the program by owner Tom Benson, but didn't.

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

As fellow black musician Tom Fletcher said, Hogan was the " first to put on paper the kind of rhythm that was being played by non-reading musicians.

Lee said that Lew Wasserman, Sidney Sheinberg or Tom Pollock, the Jewish heads of MCA and Universal Studios, were unlikely to allow antisemitic content in a film they produced.

In October 1962, Mets official Tom Meany said, " Only a series of blizzards or some other unforeseen trouble might hamper construction.

In 1998, after Island Records released the compilation Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Waits left the label for Epitaph, whose president, Andy Kaulkin, said the label was "... blown away that Tom would even consider us.

Tom Petty said about the Wilburys touring:

His role model is Tom Watson, then IBM chairman, who said in 1958: ' I think there is a world market for about five computers.

According to Charles Greville, Melbourne said to his secretary, Tom Young: " I think it's a damned bore.

In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.

According to a NASA press release, APOLLO researcher Tom Murphy said, " We got about 2, 000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Here in the God-forsaken place, the westerly end of nowhere, Tom Lord looked almost insignificant, almost contemptible.

At some point in almost every show, usually when giving the address for the Puzzler answers, Ray will mention Cambridge, Massachusetts ( where the show originates ), at which point Tom reverently interjects with a tone of civic pride, " Our fair city.

Unlike Tom Wolfe or Gay Talese, for instance, I almost never try to reconstruct a story.

During an incident in 2374, Torres confessed her love for Tom Paris to him when they were left floating in space in environmental suits, with almost no hope of rescue (" Day of Honor ").

Tom Tom Club's self-titled debut album sold almost as well as Talking Heads themselves, leading to the band appearing in Stop Making Sense.

He disdained his son ’ s effeminacy and his mother Edwina, locked in an unhappy marriage, focused her overbearing attention almost entirely on Tom.

Longer races usually involve complex pit strategy and regular driver changes — sports car racing is seen more as a team sport than a gladiatorial individual sport, and team managers like John Wyer, Tom Walkinshaw, driver-turned-constructor Henri Pescarolo, Peter Sauber and Reinhold Joest have become almost as famous as many of their drivers.

While most foreign releases of the film are almost direct translations of the English title ( Canción del Sur in Spanish, Mélodie du Sud in French, Melodie Van Het Zuiden in Dutch, Sången om södern in Swedish, A Canção do Sul in Portuguese, and Etelän laulu in Finnish ), the German title Onkel Remus ' Wunderland translates to " Uncle Remus ' Wonderland ", the Italian title I Racconti Dello Zio Tom translates to " The Stories of Uncle Tom ", and the Norwegian title Onkel Remus forteller translates roughly to " Storyteller Uncle Remus.

Time Out London critic Tom Milne writes: " and Edmund Goulding almost transform the soap into style ; a Rolls-Royce of the weepie world.

Outside the court house where Ike was being fined, Wyatt almost walked into 28 year-old Tom McLaury as the two men were brought up short nose-to-nose.

Its gruff captain, Lieutenant Commander William H. DeVriess ( Tom Tully ), has almost completely discarded discipline, and the crew has become slovenly and superficially undisciplined – although their performance is, in fact, excellent.

In Louisiana, Uncle Tom almost succumbs to hopelessness as his faith in God is tested by the hardships of the plantation.

This version was evidently similar to many of the " Tom Shows " of earlier decades and featured numerous stereotypes about blacks ( such as having the slaves dance in almost any context, including at a slave auction ).

Monzón then scored a win over tough Philadelphian Bennie Briscoe, over-coming a shakey 9th round, in which Briscoe almost scored a knockout ; a knockout in five rounds over European Champion Tom Bogs, a knockout in seven rounds over Mexican José Mantequilla Nápoles in Paris, France and a 10 round knockout of tough Tony Licata of New Orleans at the Madison Square Garden, in what would turn out to be Monzón's only fight in the United States.

There had been a succession of regular supporting characters, changing almost every series, but Dr Leo Dalton ( William Gaminara ) and Dr Harry Cunningham ( Tom Ward ), who were introduced in the sixth series in 2002, remained in the series and continued as lead characters following Ryan's departure, with Dalton replacing her as professor.

However Fine Gael, which was confident that its prospective candidate, Tom O ' Higgins, would win the 1973 presidential election ( he had almost defeated de Valera in 1966 ) turned down the offer.

Big was received with almost unanimous critical acclaim ; based on 53 reviews collected by the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 96 % of critics gave the film a positive " Certified Fresh " review and the consensus stating " Refreshingly sweet and undeniably funny, Big is a showcase for Tom Hanks, who dives into his role and infuses it with charm and surprising poignancy.

Tom Shapcott, reviewing With Love and Fury, her posthumous collection of selected letters published in 2007, comments that her letter on this topic to the Australian Prime Minister John Howard was " almost brutal in its scorn ".

During the " talk " era the station, between 1993 and 1996, tried to launch a hot talk format on the station, acquiring J. R. Gach from WGR as the afternoon drive show and established syndicated hot talkers The Howard Stern Show ( by this time now almost exclusively on the FM dial ), G. Gordon Liddy, Laura Schlessinger, The Fabulous Sports Babe, Tom Leykis and ( briefly, before Gach's arrival ) Don and Mike.

In late November they launched these low-altitude strikes almost nightly to get at Enterprise and other American ships, so Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford, O ' Hare and Commander Tom Hamilton, CV-6 Air Officer, were deeply involved in developing ad hoc counter-tactics, the first carrier-based night fighter operations of the U. S. Navy.

* Dick ( Tom ): A tall, lanky hyena, almost always seen with his confederate Bo, who works with Bubu and Sylvester in their fiendish plans.