Word: bespeak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Visit to a Small Planet, which recently finished a run of almost 400 performances on Broadway. Among the many virtues of the play--as of most of Vidal's writing--is the freshness of its dialogue. Vidal avoids dull or hackneyed speech; his lines are original and unpredictable, and bespeak an uncommonly imaginative creative mind...
...means stereotyped in its choice of material, presenting a wide range of media and technique. Eric Martin combines a photographic process with his brush-and-ink self-portrait, symbolizing "the eye" as an artist conceives it. Willard Midgette and Earl Newman offer woodcuts whose heavy, determined forms bespeak another temperament and approach altogether...
...teach him slow," Goldman says, "because I want him to feel natural." The fidgetless calm of Rocky's conversation, the buoyancy of his step and the rippling muscularity of his workouts bespeak an unclouded mind in a body sound as brick...
...began with Adlai Stevenson's written reply to a question posed by the Oregon Journal: "Can Stevenson really clean up the mess in Washington?" The reply, published in the Journal, read: "As to whether I can clean up the mess in Washington, I would bespeak the careful scrutiny of what I inherited in Illinois and what has been accomplished in three years . . . I can only give my best, with ruthless objectivity...