Word: affectionate
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Re your brief description of Edgar Degas [Oct. 1] ... to say that Degas was not sentimental about ballet, called his dancer-models "little rats," just doesn't make sense. For "little rats" is precisely the term used for all "apprentice" dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet, and has been...
There is a sharp contrast of personalities in the film. Clift plays an insecure but ambitious young man who goes to work in a factory owned by a distant relative; while he is there he meets two girls. Shelley Winters plays the first--a factory girl who seems attractive at...
As the years passed and the library grew in fame and riches, Londoners learned that Mr. Cox was no ordinary librarian. Perched in portly majesty on his chair behind the big librarian's counter, he seemed to know the 500,000 books as if they were personal friends. He...
In Sweden, a Stockholm justice fined a young sailor and his love for kissing in public, on the grounds that such open display of affection constitutes "obnoxious behavior repulsive to all public morals."
Sir: Having been a sometime resident of Eton and Windsor, and having come to own an affection for the legend and tradition which abound on both the Eton and Windsor sides of the Thames . . . I resent, sir, the present Duke of Wellington's contention that his forebear did not...