Word: bared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Omnibus this week brought big historical drama to television. Lee at Gettysburg, a 78-minute play written in lucid, often eloquent blank verse by young (35) TV Dramatist Alvin Sapinsley, opposed the general's two chief subordinates like tongs of a forceps with which to lay bare and probe Lee's fatal flaw...
...When I lay bare the tooth of wit The hissing over the arched tongue Is more affectionate than hate, More bitter than the love of youth, And inaccessible by the young...
When the curtain rises on Samuel Beckett's play it reveals a stage bare of everything but a few shapes vaguely suggestive of rocks and something that resembles a tree. Soon two hobos named Estragon and Vladimir come onstage, and the audience learns that they are waiting for someone called Godot to meet them there. The pair talk for a while, and than they are joined by two other characters, a cruel slave-driver and the slave whom he leads around on the end of a rope. After some more conversation, Pozzo, the master, and Lucky, the slave leave...
...clue to Hopper's paintings is found in the description of his studio-bare, bright, orderly, still heated by a coal stove-and in the man himself, a man of few words. His pictures are not a moment in time as are those of the impressionists but a moment out of time-pictures that seem to regret change...
...Spain, and so are the realities. Both parts of the New World may now be good neighbors, but the heirs of the Pilgrims have a hostile notion of all that the Spanish fathered in Latin America. The austere image of the Puritans of 1620 kneeling on the bare beach at Plymouth has obscured in the U.S. mind the more complicated grandeur of the equally devout men who, 100 years before, had kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel...