Word: blur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life-size photograph of a man in a foreign military uniform. This he identified as one Gustavo Duran, who once held a "top job" in the State Department (aide to Latin American Expert Spruille Braden, 1943-46), and now works for the United Nations Secretariat. The blur of McCarthy rhetoric implied that Duran had been a member of the Russian secret police in Europe, and his photograph was right there to prove it. (What Joe actually said was: Duran was head of something called "S.I.M." in Europe, which was "a counterpart of the Russian secret police.") Duran's reply...
...ancient Chinese emperor who learned to value carefree nature above sterile pomp and artifice. It is told with a good deal of charm, taste and imagination. But it is also overlong and repetitious. How well its deliberate pace will hold U.S. youngsters, raised on Walt Disney's blur-of-action technique, is a question that only the children themselves can settle...
...Father, a young German recalls how his father came home from the World War I battlefront to find the mother having an affair with another man; the figures move and blur in the depths of his memory like shapes under water. Two Men is a stark outline of boredom on a lonely African station; the climax is a blood spree that is somehow more ghastly because its victims are not people, but ducks, geese and flamingos...
...frontier settled down, they too began to build stone churches with stained-glass windows, and adjust their forms and liturgies to the traditional patterns of the middle class. Gradually a new, American kind of Protestantism came into being, a blur of church and sect, of institutionalism and enthusiasm, still bearing the tolerant, "do-gooding," democratic marks of the frontier...
...strange new Book of Life to him. When he has a chance to read it with self-criticism and with Christian guidance, he is fascinated with it and with its lasting insights and demands. In spite of his religious illiteracy, which mirrors our culture and tends to blur his vision of the 'things which are God's,' he is uneasy about the 'things which are Caesar's . . .' His spiritual errors and ignorance often come more from his head than from his heart. Throwing the Bible at him will not heal his hurt, but opening...