Word: blurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soared above the stage in spring-legged leaps that seemed to pin them in the air as if frozen by a strobe light, whipped their bodies into angles few Western dancers would even attempt. In Polyanka (The Meadow), files of dancers snaked across the stage in a sinuous blur of speed, hurled past one another in a complex tracery. Partisans had the black-cloaked dancers gliding in roller-smooth imitation of horsemen on patrol; Soccer sent them cartwheeling in comic, splay-fingered lunges for an imaginary ball...
...hiding the facts about Negro crime, the "conspiracy of concealment" helps blur the causes of it. Negro leaders themselves often put forward explanations that are oversimple. Some hold that Negro crime is largely the result of migrations from the South: in the unfamiliar environment of the North, the argument runs, Negroes tend to be more crime-prone, just like white immigrants from abroad. But in fact, some studies have shown that, contrary to popular conviction, crime rates among foreign-born whites were lower than among U.S.-born whites...
After repeating this procedure with Holbein's King Henry VIII, Cranach's Lucretia and a Modigliani portrait, Trevor-Roper went on to examine other artists affected by eye diseases. Cézanne's myopia may be the reason, he said, for Cézanne's blur. Monet suffered from cataract, which caused his greens to become more yellow, his blues more purple. Constable may not have realized how brown his trees appeared to normal vision because he was colorblind. "A fuzziness or what art historians would call "breadth,' " he went on, is the weakness...
...President and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at their meeting last month in Washington. Yet every passing day seemed to bring more complications than solutions; last week State Department technicians were putting in 14-hour days, and Secretary John Foster Dulles' week was a blur of policy sessions, press conferences, meetings with NATO visitors...
Between the lines of confusion, renewed determination, and unsure reassurance, one message stands out, italicized against the blur of conflicting emotions: If America can learn anything from the current denouement, it is that our adolescence is past. This country has been fortunate; its youth has grown strong and vigorous under every conceivable circumstance. But we have consistently tended to confuse luck with talent, and have been satisfied to rest on our big oars, failing to see that the sea could get rougher. The nation, swollen with pride of accomplishment, has been content to play the strapping fair-haired boy, stepping...