Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Action claimed him from 17 to 20, when he zipped through engineering courses at the University of Vienna, joined a fraternity, got himself properly chopped about the chin in a duel, and thoroughly initiated into the bedrooms of the local frauleins. At 20, after a series of undergraduate bull sessions about free will and Zionism, he lit out for Palestine to be a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water...
...eyebrow. The result, however fantastic to the eye, is nevertheless a brilliant coincidence of musical sensitivity and bodily gesture which comes as an astonishing contrast after his stiff, portentous progress to the rostrum-the short, plumpish, dandified figure, the familiar imperial, the slow walk, the back dead straight, the chin well up, the arms straight by the sides. On his "off" nights he can be more "off" than anybody else; but at his best and when conducting the music he loves-Mozart, Haydn, Berlioz or Frederick Delius (his favorite English composer and lifelong friend)-he is a miracle of verve...
Another famous Irishman, James Joyce, sat for a series of pencil sketches. "He had a precise and buttoned-up appearance . . . He explained that the poverty of his beard was due to an early accident to his chin, but I did not feel empowered to restore the missing growth. In spite of his cold and formal exterior, I was much drawn to Joyce and, on finally parting with him . . . to his consternation, embraced him in the continental manner...
...enacted, the amphitheater's galleries were jammed to the rafters with crowds which sat ghostly and half revealed behind the slanted, dazzling shafts of brightness from the television lights. When Barkley came down the stairs at the end of the platform, stiffened his back, lifted his chin and advanced unsmilingly to the speaker's stand, the restless rumble of the crowd became a roar. The ovation went on for 20 minutes...
Author Linklater swings no heavy sword himself; he is much too urbane to cleave an enemy to the chin. The result is a very amiable foray, with a lot more laughter than serious bloodshed...