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...view of nature sounds anthropocentric and hence, by most contemporary creeds, hopelessly old-fashioned. But Wilbur's poems always allow the animal and vegetable kingdoms their tumultuous integrity. Their energy is a cause for celebration, and so, equally, is the power of the human mind to absorb, assimilate and assort all these phenomena. "Odd that a thing is most itself when likened," writes Wilbur, extolling the ability of language, metaphors, similes to capture the spectacle of reality. Even then, abstractions can be unsettled by the tug of the here and now. A bluefish swims beneath...
...indulge in such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic assort ment of sheiks and shebas...
...come from the brush of the late great Edouard Manet, perked up the National Gallery's feeble Prench section like a shot of vitamins. Besides the Manet, rated as fine as the Dejeuner sur I'Herbe in the Louvre, Collector Dale's loan contained an assort ment of top-flight Renoirs, Degas and Corots, two Courbets, a superb Fantin-Latour, and important works by such 19th-Century painters as Eugene Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. That Chester Dale's "loan" might be a permanent one was excitedly conceded last week in museum circles...
...still be obliged to undergo compulsory military training. The matter is not one of pacifism or militarism now, despite the opinions of old die-hards". The point at issue is the right to shake off military requirements now that their raison d'etre has disappeared. And the right to assort this truism has been seriously infringed...
FIRST catch your judges and assort them carefully. Pick out some plump and tender specimens, and mix with them a few thin and tough ones. If possible, have one or more of them boast that he knows nothing about speaking. Next proceed to make a small hole in the skull of each judge and draw out his brains. They are now ready for use. Place them under a slow gas fire from the speakers for two hours or more, and then remove them to another apartment. Plunge them at once into a stewpan, sprinkle in a liberal allowance of pepper...
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