Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to work short hours, get high pay, ride in big cars and watch television." The effect on the schools, said Grayson Kirk, has been devastating. "Many a bright student finds only boredom in a class where the intellectual level is pitched to the duller students. Many will even conceal their capacities and knowledge because . . . they are intimidated by the anti-intellectualism that dominates so many classes...
...elaborate series of manipulations involving key page numbers, word counts and "root numbers," Donnelly finally "deciphered" such statements as "Seas ill (Cecil) said that More low (Marlowe) or Shak'st spurre (Shakespeare) never writ a word of them," convinced himself that Bacon had written the plays to conceal "the inner history of his times, in cipher." But no sooner had Donnelly published his theory than another scholar used his methods to produce the message: "Master Will I Am Shak'st spurre writ the play...
...angles rather than curves. To shape the angles, Indian performers exercise muscles not usually used by Western dancers. Hands are incessantly occupied with mudras, the eloquent and elegant Hindu language of the hands. Head, neck, facial muscles, eyes, even eyebrows contribute. To reveal only the whites, wide-eyed dancers conceal the iris under the upper or lower lid, and Shanta Rao can make either one of her eyebrows dance up her forehead while the other is kept immobile. Fourteen Eye Movements. Mangalore-born Dancer Rao functions from her painted soles through her tinkling, braceleted ankles, right up to the bejeweled...
Never one to conceal her charms behind the veils of maidenly Moslem modesty, pretty Princess Aisha, 26, the French-educated eldest daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco, is an ardent champion of women's rights in Islam, an area where a lot of pioneering remains to be done on the subject. Last week she carried her fight to Damascus, and proved herself as delectable an agitator as ever made an Arab forget John Foster Dulles. Syria, which had other things to worry about, feted her all week, put her up in a palace, provided her with a Cadillac...
Could it be that Cozzens, like so many of us, has feelings of insecurity and self-doubt that he attempts to conceal by his profession of superiority...