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Word: breathe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collection of bramble burrowback lines over the etched and mutable prone profile of perpetual hills. The earth darkened and saddened into wraith-like russet, and the chant of cunning melancholy evaporated from the remembering ear and might have materialized in the cinnamon-brown clouds that brushed like a dark breath over the cheek of the softening mocha and amethyst horizon. The east slipped to peace amid a resentment of raddled colors, the sun dipped beneath the great lip of the earth's rim and the landscape dark as an ancient photograph, warm and old as the closed volume...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Writing Courses at Harvard | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

Barbara's throaty roar has often made critics mention her name in the same breath as Blues Singer Smith's. She has the same spine-grabbing talent of "bending" a note-hitting her target, then turning on the power as she slides a quarter tone above or below. After Barbara appeared with Louis Armstrong at the Pasadena Jazz Festival last month, the master called an agent cross-continent and gave his own estimate: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: A Gasser | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Want to Live! (Figaro; United Artists). "When you hear the pellets drop," says the kindly guard to the beautiful doll as he buckles her into the cyanide chamber, "take a deep breath and count ten. It's easier that way." The beautiful doll only flings him a sardonic question: "How do you know?" Barbara Graham (Susan Hay ward), according to this skillful screen version of the life and death of one of California's most celebrated criminals (TIME. June 13, 1955), is a woman who likes to find things out for herself. At 25, she has found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Ironically, it is the most repellent qualities of the Clubs that give the system this advantage. Their snobbishness, their secrecy, their uncreativity, their preoccupation with an isolated social world all tend to dissuade most undergraduates from any any wish to join. Dean Bender, in the same breath as he criticizes the Clubs for "narrowness," feverently hopes "that the Clubs never start getting democratic." If the Clubs were to elect people on a basis of creative merit, he points out, then undergraduates might really begin to care about joining. The Clubs would become a generally recognized elite, and the punching season...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, COPYRIGHT, NOVEMBER 22, 1958, BY THE HARVARD CRIMSON | Title: The Final Clubs: Little Bastions of Society In a University World that No Longer Cares | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Ironically, it is the most repellent qualities of the Clubs that give the system this advantage. Their snobbishness, their secrecy, their uncreativity, their preoccupation with an isolated social world all tend to dissuade most undergraduates from any any wish to join. Dean Bender, in the same breath as he criticizes the Clubs for "narrowness," feverently hopes "that the Clubs never start getting democratic." If the Clubs were to elect people on a basis of creative merit, he points out, then undergraduates might really begin to care about joining. The Clubs would become a generally recognized elite, and the punching season...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Yale Fraternities: A Spawning Ground | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

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