Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damaged Spirit. "When I was 16 I became increasingly depressed, until I wasn't able to concentrate in school. My mother beat me on my bare back with a leather belt. That night I attempted suicide by jumping from the pier at Long Beach. I was rescued. I turned to another form of antisocial behavior . . . a kind of amateur prostitution. I never received money for it [but] I understand now that I was taking payment in affection and a kind of revenge against my parents. The human need for affection . . . is an overpowering emotion...
...forward, but the problem of money is still a considerable barrier. Over $50,000 has been raised in pledges, but a condition of the pledge prevents redeeming it until the entire amount is collected. The cost of the building is still undetermined, but $50,000 will be only a bare start...
Mephistopheles turned up in evening dress and top hat, instead of red tights. Marguerite did her hair in a high topknot instead of braids. Faust was a bumbling, bourgeois scholar working in a 19th century library (with high shelves and a stepladder) instead of a bare Gothic study. Otherwise, Gounod's Faust was Gounod's Faust, and an old-reliable choice for the Metropolitan Opera's opening night this week...
Working in a complex field, and living in a gadget-ridden society, Schwinger stands out in bold relief. His office, almost bare of books and papers, with only a few mementos, reminds one that no physical paraphernalia stands between him and his work. He is, perhpas, driven by the excitement of discovery. For although living in a defined, pedantic way, he pursues, in physics, and ephemeral certainty remote from the certitudes of everyday experience. "We're in a provisional state of things now," he says, glancing at a blackboard covered with symbols. "We don't know where we stand...
Austral Seas. Three weeks later, the expedition reached the Pacific. Chronicler Andrés de Valdarrábanos tells what happened: "Captain [Balboa], going ahead of all those he was conducting up a bare high hill, saw from its summit the South Sea . . . And immediately he turned toward the troops, very happy, lifting eyes and hands to Heaven, praising Jesus Christ and His glorious Mother." Balboa knelt, commanding his men to do likewise, "and gave thanks to God for the grace He had shown him in allowing him to discover that sea." Later, Balboa and his men scrambled down...