Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first term, the academy is offering an exotic array of courses, and 100 college graduates from all over the country have come to take them. There are courses in Islamic law and Hindu thought, in the Urdu, Pali and Bengali languages-everything from "Vedanta and Its Interpretations" to "Systems of Atmavidya." The whole idea, says Gainsborough, is to teach more than just politics and economics. "Nobody can understand Asia," says he, "without realizing that the spiritual life dominates everything...
Gainsborough has also lined up an exotic array of 17 teachers. As director of studies he picked German-born Frederic Spiegelberg, Stanford's top expert in Hindu culture and religion. From Japan he got Lama Tokwan Tada, a wizened little man in yellow robes who is the only living Japanese High Lama of Lhasa. From India came Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, the former Prime Minister of Travancore...
...excellence of this array is quickly evident to anyone trying to figure a defense against its attack. Colgate, for example could do little to stop Calvo's passing, because whenever the Raiders spread their defense for the pitches, Seidenberg would blast up the middle on effective trap plays...
...vomit death." He dressed his subjects in leering masks, pitted them in futile struggles against each other. Even his own family was not proof against his scorn. In The Artist's Mother in Death, he stretched his mother's gaunt, grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted. "When I look at my drawings of 1877 I find cubist angles, futurist explosions, impressionist flakings, dada knights and constructivist structures." Some Ensor...
...massive array of promising eyes, perfect legs and pneumatic bosoms, he finds nothing that can quite match his favorites of yesteryear-Theda Bara, the archetype of the Vamp; Gloria Swanson, with her passion for spangles and feathers; Clara Bow, the original "It" girl; Greta Garbo, the incomparable Swede, still a legend after a decade off the screen; Jean Harlow, whose platinum-blonde petulance and provocative lisp still agitate nostalgic memories in thousands of aging males...