Word: betrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saintly qualities still apply? Australian Anglican Ross Walker, a social worker in Canberra, says they have not changed much since Jesus' time: "Love, self-denial, continuing self-sacrifice and grace are all necessary." Though saints "like to keep what they do private," he says, their very personalities often betray them: "They are all inspiring, larger-than-life people...
...record rhythmic and warmly insightful juxtapositions is the genius of Shahn's photographs. They differ considerably from most of the best photography done in America during his era; these are gay documents of a world that the more gravely-inclined have seen as lonely and tragic. The difference may betray a lack of seriousness that prevents Shahn's work from being ranked with truly great photographers like Evans. But serious analysis is only one photographic possibility; Shahn was simply interested in seeing things wonderfully...
Though he often seems flat and pedantic in front of large crowds, Carter effectively conveys a soft-spoken reasonableness and decency in face-to-face talks. "If I ever lie to you, if I ever betray you, then I want you to leave me," he tells youthful supporters in New Hampshire-and they warmly applaud his sincerity. So far, he remains well back in the presidential pack. Still, as so many of the candidates keep pointing out, so was George McGovern in a comparable period four years...
...novels (for instance, Captains Courageous)? Because, says Wilson, he could not conceal his true, tragic nature in the longer run. Mason concedes that Kipling's training and temperament put him into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray his emotions." But he argues that Kipling struggled bravely and imaginatively to deliver himself whole to his reader, and that in fact his later, lesser-known stories- such parables in anguish as The Gardener and Mary Postgate-were his masterpieces...
...thing one would expect of Pawlowski," said Montano. "He is so correct -a gentleman very much in the tradition of fencing." Added American Fencer Jack Keane, captain of the Pan American fencing team, who has often competed with Pawlowski: "He is such a Polish patriot; he would no more betray his country than he would his sport...