Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyricism over Steel. Two successive performances of Swan Lake introduced Ballerinas Maya Plisetskaya and Nina Timofeyeva, two of the Bolshoi's first-line quartet of female dancers (of the first week's stars, Galina Ulanova no longer dances Swan Lake, and Raissa Struchkova is not doing so at...
The critics have dutifully produced a jargon suitable for such works. Sample (Nicolas Calas in Art News): "Jasper Johns extinguishes the emblematic character of a given sign . . . The target of blue and yellow circles holds the implication that from the marksman's stand it would be seen as a...
Gee whiz, TIME, how do you expect us little guys to pump gas all day and sleep well at night when we read about threats like that Romney character? Fire and brimstone on the Rambler! I say, "Man the gas pumps, men!"
Courage. His clenched fists very tight against his hips as he spoke, the President bowed his head thoughtfully. Now and then he wet his lips; once he mopped his brow. In a moving little talk, he said: "I personally believe he has filled his office with greater distinction and greater...
Anchor Prince. Baylor's furious fountainhead of theater is burningly scornful of academic mediocrity, preaches that "great teaching lies just short of prophecy." His own contribution to anticipating the future has been to establish at the Baptist school in Waco, Texas one of the most fertile experimental theaters in...