Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horrible civil war would result ... in which Socialism [Soviet variety] might be completely buried." Thus the second "Soviet intervention" with tanks to shoot down the rebels was "completely justified." It was also a "mistake": some Kremlinists "still believe that military strength solves everything. But just see how a bare-handed and poorly armed people resisted terribly when it had one aim-to free itself and be independent...
...suffered from debutitis, but recovered, and will probably become Met regulars. Most spectacular newcomer was Trinidad's rangy (6 ft. 6 in.) Dancer Geoffrey Holder, who appeared in the big ballet that sprawls in the middle of the opera. Holder made a startling appearance, his long brown body bare except for a white bikini and a brilliant, feather-patterned headdress. In a primitive tribal dance that recalled his appearance last year in Broadway's House of Flowers, Holder leaped and writhed with a fierce catlike virility that more than matched Verdi's triumphal music...
...play suggests a kind of emotional total recall rather than subjective involvement; in the most personal of his plays O'Neill seems, as a writer, least selfconscious. He has succeeded, not-as is usual in creative autobiography-through assuming some kind of mask, but through stripping himself bare. Memory has had for O'Neill an incandescence that imagination seldom...
Imperative Emotion. But for Sullivan, "function" was not bare-boned utilitarianism. Once the problem is analyzed, he insisted, "We must heed the imperative voice of emotion." This meant exalting the loftiness of the building as "the very open organ-tone of its appeal." For Sullivan, the organ-tone required its grace notes as well: the wrought-iron and terracotta decoration he lavished on his buildings, inside and out (opposite...
...walls had been stripped bare of their posters, and the number of "Let's Back Ike" buttons had visibly diminished. When the announcement of Ike's win in Massachusetts came over the two television sets at 12:30 a.m. there were only about 120 people to offer a feeble cheer...