Word: colorlessness
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...company's vast impersonality keeps them apart, but is at least partially transcended by their glances, by their slight contact, and by the chance that they may some day truly discover one another. It is this possibility for change, for mutuality, that life extends to Domenico, which lifts his colorless routine into the realm of emprise. It is this possibility which lends animation, humor, and warmth to the Sound of Trumpets...
WHITE ON WHITE-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Something old, something new, something borrowed, but nothing blue. Old hands (Nevelson, Albers) and new (Angelo Savelli, Omar Rayo) make the most of a colorless but sometimes surprising marriage by wedding white with white in sculpture, painting and graphics. Through...
Lambuth despised inert verbs: "To be is the weakest of all verbs because it merely joins two ideas together with a colorless glue." He liked verbs that are "busy doing or making something." Not When Elizabeth was queen, but When Elizabeth reigned. He sought concrete words standing for "material things which may be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or heard." No Lambuth student could write that a man indulged in an act of generosity; he wrote that a man gave a dollar to a tramp. Abstract: He gave vehement and conclusive expression to his anger. Concrete: His fist landed squarely...
Scuppered Admiral. When World War II broke out, blonde, green-eyed Cynthia had been married for nine years to Arthur Pack, a colorless British diplomat who was nearly twice her age. The daughter of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel, at 29 she was adventurous, astute, attractive and, from diligent years on Europe's diplomatic circuit, already an old hand at affairs of state. Leaving her husband, she returned to the U.S. shortly after the fall of France, immediately joined British Security Coordination (B.S.C.), the Manhattan-based intelligence and counterespionage network that was run by Sir William Stephenson, the famed...
Moro's colorless caution was the very quality that boosted him to political prominence. Five years ago, after sharp-tongued Amintore Fanfani quit in a huff as Christian Democratic leader-in a dispute over his then still heavily opposed plans for an opening to the left-party elders looked for a replacement. He had to be a man nobody was mad at, and Moro filled the bill. Although Fanfani later became Premier for more than two years, Moro stayed on as the party's chief strategist. No less vigorous than Fanfani in his advocacy of the center-left...