Word: abyss
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...unbelievably clumsy attempt to stir internal dissension, Nikita Khrushchev dispatched "personal" letters to the Socialist Parties of seven Western European nations. "Any widening of the conflict around Syria may drive Britain into the abyss of a new, destructive war, with all is terrible consequences for the population of the British Isles," Khrushchev wrote to Britain's Labor Party. "We hope that plans of organizing military intervention against peaceful Syria . . . will be condemned by the Labor Party." With the sole exception of Italy's fellow-traveling Pietro Nenni, Western Europe's Socialists rebuffed Khrushchev's overtures with...
Half a century had carried nearly all of his contemporary actors of the Revolution into the abyss of time, and he now stood like an imposing column that had been raised to commemorate deeds and principles that a whole people had been taught to reverence...
...never learned to live with them. Shortly before his death at the age of 80, after he had won both honors and renown, he wearily told his doctor: "The last part of my life has been an effort to stand up. My path has always been along an abyss...
...when he served on a New York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels in the pit of an honest juryman's stomach when he has to walk that plank...
...approach. The designs and allegories a la Blake lack the English man's fluidity. They tend to be cramped and a little stiff, although decorative and full of imagination. The best pictures are the self-portraits in the second style. Others of these academic attempts do not escape the abyss of the artist's Germanicism. For example, the painting of the French town of Carcasonne looks like a set for a Wagnerian opera. Another landscape, the artist's impression of New York, is more successful and the interpretation is provocative...