Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying hard to conceal his enthusiasm at the find of a lifetime, Bar-Adon takes pleasure in his ignorance. "I don't even have names for these things, let alone know what they were used for," he confesses. "For many of the objects there is no parallel anywhere. We may be at the beginning of a new culture-for Palestine anyway...
Less than Specific. The rolling presidential rhetoric did not conceal the fact that his message was a reprise of a dusty theme, one that his audience had heard and pondered often in the past. Nor in Kennedy's echoing generalities did the publishers discover any new approaches to a problem as old as democracy itself but now more complex than ever: a free press's obligations to the national interest. The polite applause for Kennedy's speech had barely died away before the press began to point out that the President had been less than specific...
...Bogomilism and the Albigenses all had basic characteristics in common: 1) rejection of the world of matter as a trap imprisoning the divine "spark," 2) the concept of the Saviour as a heavenly being merely masquerading as human to bring salvation to 3) the elect, who often have to conceal themselves from the world, and who are set apart by 4) their special knowledge and personal purity (sexual intercourse is usually forbidden as serving the ends of the evil creator...
...didn't expect to get caught. I went to great lengths to conceal my activities so I wouldn't get caught." So, last week, explained a witness before the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee as it opened hearings into the shenanigans that led to the conviction of 29 electrical-equipment companies on charges of illegal price fixing. Judging by the speaker-General Electric's L. B. Gezon, former marketing manager of the low-voltage department-and nine other lower-echelon executives, the real fear was not of wrongdoing but of being caught...
Bergman's answers are not all the same: love of God, love of man, or quiet return to the security of illusion, but all reject analysis, science, and ultimate meanings. Bergman's failures have fascinated critics, but have not yet persuaded him that shock and technique conceal the weakness of his work without making it successful. His latest shows again the distance from his vision of life accompained by brilliant handling of the cinema to a film that persuades rather than presenting an answer as revealed truth...