Word: concealer
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...adapting the tale, the entire effort seems to have been embarrassing and painful to Prokofiev. As he had promised, he did weave a number of tuneful folk motifs into his usual sophisticated, modernist composition, even included a vintage Red army marching song. But the composer seemed somehow unable to conceal his treasonable pessimism and basic disbelief in the opera. When his hospitalized hero grabs a nurse and gaily dances on artificial legs to prove to doctors his fitness for combat, the music is merely polite and detached, fails to milk the emotion of the scene in approved Soviet fashion. Still...
...Sidney J. Ungar, a tenement tycoon and real estate speculator, to foot the $4,400 bill for decorating Jack's Harlem apartment at a time when Ungar was eagerly seeking a $30 million slum-clearance contract from the city, and 2) later conspiring with Sydney Ungar to conceal the facts from the law. An earlier trial had resulted in a hung jury...
...open a Lagos embassy immediately, Abubakar bluntly told him: "As a diplomat, you must understand that things are not done that way. You must submit an application for diplomatic relations, and we shall judge it on its merits.") Above all, the extremists are shocked that Abubakar can barely conceal his contempt for showboating Kwame Nkrumah and his schemes for Pan-African unification, instead urges that for the time being, African cooperation be limited to such practical steps as technical and cultural exchanges, a common U.N. front and, perhaps, economic agreements...
Like the Washington press corps as a whole, the pundits are mostly Democratic. Among their ranking members is the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston. "There is a basic difference between the two candidates which no ob ligation to objectivity can conceal," wrote Reston last week. "The two men have reacted differently to the savage pressures of the last two months. Nixon is aiming lower and concentrating on stopping bad things, while Kennedy is concentrating on starting new things. The Vice President is still painfully selfconscious, while Kennedy is increasingly self-assured. Kennedy seems...
...Nazis used its north tower as a snipers' nest. War and religious strife have broken the hands and heads of saints, smashed panes of irreplaceable glass. Even worse wreckers were the 19th century restorers who plastered the apse with inanities-candelabra that cast no light, bas-reliefs that conceal the beauties of the structure. Yet today Chartres again stands serene, outcropping grass and flowers, bathed within with blue and red and changing light. "This building is like bread. You have to bake it every day." says one stonemason of Chartres. "All the time we pull out stones, replace them...