Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beneath such stark dedication, not much of common humanity is visible. Gromyko reads mostly books on economics, though he once admitted that he likes Lord Byron (because he had a "social consciousness"). Gromyko drinks little, eats moderately. He plays some chess, some volleyball. Muffled reports say that he collects stamps. His buxom wife, Lidiya. has borne him a son, Anatoli, 15, and a daughter, Emiliya, 9. Whatever time he can spare (which is not much), he spends with his family. The story goes that when a newsman once called his home, Gromyko's daughter answered the telephone. The newsman asked...
...watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull. Radar eyes pierce night...
...Existentialist. Like many other Frenchmen, Sébille was "profoundly disturbed" by the moral decay and physical degeneration of French youth. The present was empty and the future bleak. This state of mind was played upon by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Sébille, who is a jolly fellow beneath his solemn surface, reacted sharply against that philosophy of despair. What was "lost in the smoke of the past," he reasoned, had to be "recouped in the fire of the present...
THIS MAY BE DYNAMITE! shouted the headline in Britain's trade weekly World's Press News. Beneath it was a scandal-scented story: the press was paying members of the House of Commons for parliamentary and party "leaks." The accusation came from fat, florid Garry Allighan, a Labor M.P. and ex-Fleet Streeter. Some M.P.s, Allighan charged, got cash, some got publicity, some were merely "lubricated into loquacity" around the House...
...surface, Forster's tales trip the fantastic lightly, full of comic improbabilities which unite past & present, heaven & earth. They abound with pompous Englishmen on Italian holidays, Anglican curates who sport with pagan fauns, young ladies with good breeding and bad taste. But beneath their staid respectability lurks the irreverent demon of Pan, Greek god of nature...