Word: beholds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strikingly handsome that an army chaplain called him "beautiful to behold"; yet historians of the Reconstruction era have dubbed him "the outstanding figure in filth." He was cited for gallantry at Shiloh-and lived to be reviled as "Prince of Bummers." He was a devoted family man, and yet spent much of his time with another man's wife. Some $16 million in bonds, three mansions, a railroad, and countless acres of timberland passed through his hands; but the day came when he was jailed for skipping out on a $94 hotel bill. This contradictory, little-known figure...
...Behold! again the ubiquitous hairy...
...landlord who, in trying to dispossess an unhinged tenant, becomes instead his brother. The Loan joins a man who desperately needs help with one who desperately wants to give it but cannot: they "embraced and sighed over their lost youth. They pressed mouths together and parted forever.'' Behold the Key is a vastly comic story of a young American whose search for an inexpensive Roman apartment sends him ricocheting from one involved and Machiavellian Italian to another and leaves him on the last page dazed, dazzled and without an apartment but wholly in love with Italy. Author Malamud...
...efforts of the organist, James Armstrong, to surmount these difficulties while playing an extremely difficult part, were in some cases, notably the tremendous crescendo in "Behold, all flesh," very successful. However, his choice of stops was not always happy, particularly in the use of reeds in quieter sections. But the main defects were entirely beyond his control: the sense of release which is so integral to the form of the work is impossible except as indicated in the original scoring...
...Paul told the Corinthians that "the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance." In latter days Moses has been psychoanalyzed by Freud (Moses and Monotheism) and has taken his turn at the treaDeMille (The Ten Commandments). Now. ex-Communist Howard Fast, veteran of 14 mostly ideological novels (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road), has turned out what looks like Volume I of a Mosaic saga with overtones of both Freud and DeMille...