Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's cities, such adaptable species of wildlife as the white-tailed deer and the meadow lark manage to thrive and multiply. Not so the whooping crane, tallest (5 ft.) of North American birds. A stately, aloof marsh dweller with white plumage, black wing tips, a cap of bare red skin atop its head and a trumpetlike cry that can be heard two miles away, the whooping crane (Grus Americana) has become for U.S. conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers a symbol of their fight to save rare species from extinction...
...Opus Dei throughout the world, with four classes of membership. Top class is called Numeraries-an estimated 7,000 members of the professions (both priests and laymen), who take full vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Most of them live and study together, contribute all their income above bare subsistence to Opus Dei. The second class: Oblates, some 12,000 intellectuals, workers and peasants, who must take the vow of chastity but do not have to take the others. The next class: Supernumeraries, some 25,000, whose vows are conditional. Thus, if married, they are pledged to observe...
...Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama. For lack of a better term, Chicagoans concerned with the problem lump the minority under the label "hillbillies." Lured to Chicago by Northern industry, the newcomers are compressed into slums where squalid conditions, strange customs and limited opportunity seem to lay bare more of the bad than the good in them. Coming from states whose literacy rates are below the national average (exception: Missouri), the clannish, independent migrants show a deep-rooted aversion not only for the law, but also for sanitation, schooling, church and most other alien urban institutions as well. Though...
...exactly what the film means beyond "Isn't this a hell of a world" is hard to discern. Surely it points toward an assertion of freedom--man stripped bare of all sham, superstition, pride, and being forced to make decisions, and that the ways of fate and of the human psyche are unknowable and unpredictable. Yet the conclusion seems to proclaim a sort of human brotherhood that is partially alien to Satrian existentialism. On the other hand, it is quite possible the Satre views these two lonely people who find one another as asserting the same sort of freedom...
...ordinary work-a-night witch. Flowing flaxen tresses, bare feet, bare arms, and nearly bare breasts contained with difficulties by a tattered homespun give this young enchantress a special magic of her own. The prudish townswomen's resentment of the mysterious forest-girl drives them to nail up strangled birds to ward off her heathen charms...