Word: beset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarity of mood, however, while always appropriate in a photographer, can and is carried to over-extended lengths by the actors of "Ivan The Terrible." Therefore the character development of Ivan, for example, beset by traitor boyar noblemen within his court and hosts of foes without, progresses on a very unrefined level, and a few intimate glimpses fail to humanize a somewhat stereotyped symbol. Contemporary political significance, injected into the concluding scene when Ivan successfully turns to his people for support against his treacherous lieutenants, does unnecessary violence to subtlety for the sake of propaganda...
Basuto warriors. "You came to my assistance," he said, "when I was beset by many and powerful enemies." "Realeboah morena!" (We are glad to see you, Lord!) shouted the Basuto men, while their women hung in the background howling in wild, horselike whinnies. As four "Sons of Moshesh"-descendants of the "Basuto Moses"-stood proudly by, regal Mantsebo Seeiso, "wife of the first hut" and regent for her ten-year-old nephew chief, greeted King George. "We do not wish to be separated from you and your just Government in any manner," she said...
...Professor Toynbee, while avoiding the sins that beset Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West-"baffling immensity and enigmatic gloom"-had met the German philosopher's requirement for the writing of 20th Century history: Toynbee had found history Ptolemaic and left it Copernican. He had found historical thinking nation-centered, as before Copernicus astronomical thinking had been geocentric. The nation (Greece, Rome, Japan, the U.S.) was the common unit of history. Toynbee believed that not nations but civilizations were the "intelligible fields of study...
February in Paris was cold, windless and grey, and its people beset with chaotic politics, strikes and shortages (see FOREIGN NEWS). Last week many a Parisian found a refuge from these storms in the sparkling new Galerie des Carets. There hung the paintings of a man whom some conservative critics have come to prefer to Picasso. He was monkish old Georges Rouault, whose fat, smoldering judges, jeweled kings, whores, clowns and solitary Christs grow richer and stranger year by year. They looked not like paint but hot coals, caked angrily into patterns by a muscle-bound man with a trowel...
Some notable commuters to & from Latin America and eternity were beset by notable vicissitudes last week...