Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever present in Kingsblood Royal is Lewis' old, skilled ability to catalogue sarcastically the interiors of middle-class American homes and offices. Ever absent is what talent he once possessed for building characters out of flesh & blood rather than rage and cardboard...
...slightly more nebulous is the problem of developing "more sense of a community at Harvard." Not meaning by this the "rah-rah" spirit of some colleges, Bender rather feels the need for reviving that "sense of sharing a common life and common problems" that has been noticeably absent from the local scene in these reconstruction years. Obviously no easy task, the future dean admits doubts as to finding an easy solution, but his awareness of the problem offers hope for eventual improvement in student interrelations while at the same time preserving individualism...
Conspicuously absent in the lineup of celebrities: Toscanini, the crowning glory of Carnegie Hall, and Philharmonic Manager Arthur Judson, who might, as a sort of Phantom of the Opera, be considered indispensable to any such story...
...sumptuously on caviar, out-of-season cucumbers, fish salad, hot zakuski (hors d'oeuvres), consomme, fish, turkey, chicken, roast beef, suckling pig, ice cream, coffee and liqueurs. They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay of class consciousness. (General Mark Clark commented that the beautiful sorceress in the picture had something of the haunting elusiveness of the still unsigned Austrian peace treaty...
Stores that have announced no reductions gave high costs, vacationing or absent managers, legally fixed prices on such items as books and national brands, and a desire to see what the other fellow is going to do as their reasons for maintaining current prices...