Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assistant Professor Margaret Clapp had deep brown eyes and dark wavy hair. In her bright red dress, she seemed too slim and pretty to be a historian of note. As she lectured, she spoke softly, seldom moved her hands except to turn the note cards in front of her. As is the custom at Brooklyn, the students constantly interrupted her with questions. Sometimes Professor Clapp answered quickly, sometimes led a lively discussion. Often she broke into a broad, dimpled smile...
...great gush, like a city that has survived a plague, the campus came to life. Bare walls suddenly had pictures; windows had bright new curtains. In the roadways, cars were emptied of bridge lamps, wastebaskets and even a pair of antlers. In one house a janitor wrestled with a trunk ("I should be twins today"). The Head of House tried to make everyone feel at home. "The girls get prettier every year," she burbled. "At least we think so for the first few days...
...film gets across the hard-to-grasp concept that being a negro is, like everything else, a relative thing. It does not insist that all negroes are bright, pleasant people. It shows along with the neat, smart negroes, the ugly, stupid negroes, demanding of the audience only a degree of intellectual honesty in separating the two kinds, just as it would separate acceptable whites from unacceptable...
...pasture, Duke Snider, is a brilliant judge of fly balls, has a great throwing arm, hit 22 home runs in his rookle year with the Flock, and batted in the neighborhood of 291. To top it off, he is 22 years old. The whole Brooklyn organization is crawling with bright young flychasers, and the loss of Jethroe will not pain the Dodgers. Whether his addition to the Braves will rebound against the Brooks next season will be decided next season, of course...
...appears to me," said Don Quixote, "that translating from one language into another . . . is like gazing at a Flemish tapestry with the wrong side out: even though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that obscure the view and are not bright and smooth as when seen from the other side...