Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high drama a breathless hush pervades the air of Poussin's painting. The artist's delight was in the spacious landscape, towering Alban hills, the pleasant villa under blue skies and the rich glitter of jewels and armor. The painting keys perfectly to Poussin's own view of himself: "My natural disposition forces me to seek and cherish orderly things, avoiding confusion which is as contrary to my nature as is light to obscure gloom...
...at111 o'clock next morning. But at 9 a.m. Newshen Montgomery was awakened by her telephone: a cheery Edgar was on the line, wanting to know if she could hustle right over to the Statler. Edgar had plenty on his mind-so much that after 50 minutes of breathless note-taking, she had to remind him of a White House appointment, and give him a shove in the right direction...
...melange of law, theology and physics students, each with his specific interest, none with a particularly large group of associates from which to choose his friends. The House would surely both widen his scope of interest and give him more opportunity to express ideas on his own subject to breathless undergraduate diners...
...show was in fact a zingy half-hour, thickly populated with stage and cafe society folk, and run by Director Alan Handley at a pace so breathless that even Winchell's self-importance often had little time to come through. Many less entertaining variety shows have managed to survive. But last week, when Winchell's latest Trendex slumped from his original 21.1 to 15.9, his sponsors, Toni and Old Gold, decided that the "little people" were thinning out. They notified him that they would drop his show when his option comes up in five weeks. Cost of tuning...
After this fake little paean to peace, the Kremlin announced "a new nuclear explosion" had been "carried out at a great altitude." If the world by now was left a little breathless and confused, the distractions were working well. But not all the confusion was planned. Before the week ended, it was clear that the Kremlin was suffering from divided counsels, hot tempers and international distress...