Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only blemish on an otherwise happy Democratic evening was the enthusiastic booing of Carmine De Sapio, Tammany Hall boss and National Committeeman, who was introduced for a brief talk before Stevenson arrived. The cause: a conviction among the nonprofessionals in the Stevenson camp that the Democratic organization in New York is doing little more than going through the motions of supporting the presidential candidate...
...dignity and which threaten human freedom. One never doubts his sincerity and authority. Yet his feelings tend to overshadow some of his work, the flame obscures the value of the poem as a whole. Selections from Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1932) and Public Speech (1936) have this blemish, although they contain, vivid imagry. MacLeish's thought is poignant and direct; but one becomes exhausted with sheer oratory...
...only blemish on the whole job is the slight confusion created by the first flashback within a flashback. This, however, detracts little from an otherwise top-rate film...
...floor and the dog was unhurt. When the man returned the second day, he discovered a new puddle. Outraged, he again tossed the puppy out the window. By the third day he hoped he had trained the dog. Anxiously he entered the living room to find another, even larger blemish, but no dog. He had trained the pup well enough--trained him to jump out the window after misbehaving...
...beauty but a blemish to be hidden Behind judicious rags, driven and scorched...