Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neudorf and other examples of perfect physical development. He has taken moving pictures of some of his classes turning handsprings, twisting themselves into triangles and hopping around with the abandon of sylphs. But none of these productions can rival the gilded photographs of Neudorf himself, resplendent in tights which conceal beneath their briefness the body of the "only perfect...
What the cinema was to the stage three seasons ago, the radio is currently becoming for the cinema: a standard subject for abuse. Strictly Dynamite is strictly routine. Even Jimmy Durante's nose cannot conceal the dullness of its narrative, the staleness of its jokes...
...pattern of the tale's symbolic background. Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, Esau, Laban, Rachel, Leah take on vivid lifelikeness as characters in their own right, but at the same time their outlines are misty with suggestions of their ancestors and their posterity. Says Author Mann: 'I do not conceal from myself the difficulty of writing about people who do not precisely know who they are," but his irony is directed less at his antique protagonists than at the modern idea that individuality is unique and self-contained. Every character is the reminiscence of an earlier character, each...
...attempt is made to alter or conceal the authoress's feelings. Madame Tchernavin presents herself as a welleducated, middle-aged lady who loves two things: her family, consisting of her husband and young son, and her interest in art and literature. Both of those are crushed by the OGPU for no apparent reason, yet so complete is the crushing that Madame Tchernavin's feelings are rather of dull despair and fear than active hate...
...invariable Soviet defense against its critics ("You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs") Author Muggeridge turns an unsympathetic ear. He accuses the Soviet Government of direct responsibility for famine conditions, of attempting to belittle and conceal conditions. He implies that dislike of the Soviet system is widespread in Russia, says the Russian experiment "cannot be carried through to the end because it depends on hate. It presupposes a society in a perpetual ferment of hate, or of class war. . . . No whole society can hate long enough to destroy itself; and self-destruction is the only conceivable...