Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much to their credit Producer Pandro Berman and Director Vincente Minelli have stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life. Instead, at a leisurely and often-lagging pace they have pried into every nook & cranny of Emma's avid, neurotic soul and the drab existence that nourished it. The handling of bumbling peasants and pompous tradesmen has an acid authority. One memorable scene-a whirling, overheated ball at a local château-is a wonderfully skillful projection of Emma's half-swooning sense of her own seductiveness...
...Defense Attorney Leon Sin clair Jr., 13, who is tall, slender, brown-haired, and the "most avid reader" in his class, he is using our material to prepare a preliminary brief and has set out to get more information. In this quest he is working closely with the "defendant," a twelve-year-old seventh-grader of Italian descent, who has taken his role seriously enough to write to family relatives in Sicily and to Giuliano himself (no reply, as yet). Meanwhile, he is coaching his three witnesses in their testimony...
...years, Emma Shipman has served her church obscurely but well, as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, a member of many committees and a writer of many articles for Christian Science periodicals. In her spare time she is an avid gardener and a member of the Audubon Society. This week, the Mother Church elected Emma Shipman president for the coming year...
...words of caution. "I think this is the beginning of recovery," he said, "but there are still so many black-market millionaires in Japan that honest people have lost the will to work." Chichibu doubts that Japan's slender resources can support her huge and growing population. An avid fan of Li'l Abner, the Prince wistfully recalled his hero's fabulous friend which, as a kind of one-animal Marshall Plan, had promised to provide humanity with an abundance of everything from eggs to suspender buttons (TIME, Dec. 27). "Even with American help," smiled Prince Chichibu...
...China had been exporting the finished product to Europe for two centuries before an alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger, a protege of Augustus the Strong of Saxony, succeeded in cracking the secret of porcelain making in 1709. His success made it possible for Augustus, an avid collector of the Chinese article, to manufacture...