Word: breathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fell from the Christmas tree. But that was a long time ago. For now the Salvation Army seems a depressing crew and the snow flakes seem to make the world a muddy mess rather than a winter wonderland. And it seems all too apparent, nowadays, that reindeer have foul breath and that nine out of ten Santas are phony while the other guy isn't a member of the union...
They finished the exercises and lay back on the floor mats to catch their breath. A minute later McCurdy began discussing the prospects for the coming season...
...Rimbaud was already a poet of genius. He had a face like an angel's and a satanic determination to undergo what he called "a long, immense and deliberate derangement of all the senses . . . seeking every possible experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with sharp cries of "Merde!" One day he denounced a critic as an "excreter of ink." The critic took prompt revenge by noting that, at a subsequent first night, among those present...
...Italian who, above all others, has mastered concrete and raised it to a level where it can compete with marble and granite is not an architect (though he holds honorary degrees as such) but an engineer. He is restless, wrinkled, grey Pier Luigi Nervi, 66, whose soaring exhibition halls, breath-taking airplane hangars, utilitarian salt depots and tobacco warehouses are hailed by many as among the handsomest structures built in Europe in this century. One Italian critic has found an apt phrase to describe Nervi's work: "Poetry in concrete...
...artistry,' and so on--they have told me it would be a terrible thing for me to do anything else but write. They have said, 'You have it--it's bound to come'--but not once has anyone given me advice on the simple matter of keeping the breath of life in my body until the miracle does happen...